Interactive Technologies
Modern audiences crave active participation
Our team of designers and engineers specialise in the development of interactive technologies to drive sensory experiences that put audiences front and centre.
With interactive technology, we craft products that communicate new ideas, elevate brands, and engage audiences in fun and meaningful ways. By combining sensing, mapping and tracking technologies, we capture and enhance audience interactions, creating immersive journeys that leave lasting impressions.
We’re equipped to design and prototype your project in our studio.
OSCHII simplifies connections between the real and digital world
Our in-house technology, OSCHII, makes it simple for anyone to create connections between the real world and digital realm, allowing artists and designers to focus on their practice.
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Featured Interactive Technologies projects
The Fungi Rooms, London
Where beauty meets functionality. We created adaptive lighting systems for three mushroom cultivation tanks as part of a fungi showcase.
As part of a collaboration between Bailes+Light and Fat Fox Mushrooms at The Fungi Rooms in Tottenham, we created a captivating installation to visualise fluctuations in humidity and airflow critical to the mushroom cultivation process.
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Using our in-house technology, OSCHII, the lighting responds to environmental changes in real time, ensuring optimal conditions for fungi to thrive. When the humidity in the tanks reaches a specific threshold, OSCHII activates fans to recirculate the airflow, creating a gentle mist that showers the fruiting bodies.
Adjacent to this installation is Traces, a piece of the Underfoot web – an immersive light, audio, and mixed-reality experience celebrating soil, underground ecological relationships, and social connections tied to land.
Musical Arches at Dopamine Land
Musical Arches is a playful interactive installation that greets visitors as they arrive at this flagship immersive experience, enjoyed by thousands worldwide.
Fever Originals commissioned us to develop a series of interactive installations for their Dopamine Land experiences in the UK and Australia. Designed to be an engaging, multi-sensory experience suitable for all ages, we created Musical Arches to bring a sense of joy and anticipation to the arrival zone.
Musical Arches consists of brightly coloured, illuminated archways. Each arch emits a warm glow and plays a gentle chime when activated by someone passing through.
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The archways produce a major-key arpeggio when triggered in sequence, with each arch playing a different note.
The installation, featuring multi-layered LED lighting and a speaker within each archway, was designed to immerse participants as they passed through, creating a dynamic visual and auditory experience. It also provided an engaging spectacle for those observing from the room.
For the Australian edition, we adapted the technology to ensure the archways could only be activated in one direction. We achieved this using our OSCHII hardware, which processed inputs from two pairs of light-gate sensors installed in the doorways and triggered the appropriate effects only when the correct conditions were met.
La Casa de Papel Game – Money Heist: The Experience
Our in-house technology, OSCHII, was used to drive the escape room-style puzzle games at the heart of this award-winning immersive experience.
Experiential event designers Bearded Kitten tasked us with creating technology-driven puzzle games for a pivotal scene in Money Heist: The Experience.
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Working alongside their workshop team, we created a 3D puzzle modelled on La Casa de Papel – the Spanish Royal Mint. Each team of five participants had approximately five minutes to solve the puzzle. To complete the game, participants searched the room to find giant puzzle pieces and fit them into a custom-built puzzle base.
Our technology, OSCHII, detected the correct placement of the pieces in real-time. This gave us the ability to enhance the drama by building on the sound and lighting effects. Once the puzzle was successfully completed, the system unlocked a mag-lock drawer on the playing table, revealing the next clue needed to advance the narrative.
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The Rhizosphere at Glastonbury
The Rhizosphere is a new tourable immersive venue dedicated to celebrating ecological relationships within soil and exploring human relationships to land.
10 steps you can take to increase the number of women and non-binary people in your tech crewBailes+Light have been working to improve crew diversity across all their projects. For Greenpeace at Glastonbury Festival they just recently hit an important milestone - less than 30% of the 21 technicians working on the lighting team were men. Over 50% were women, with the remainder being non-binary. Find out how....