Future of Fitness

January 2023

An interactive & immersive experience at Nike Town London where visitors' body movements influence the visuals and sound inside an LED-covered room. In this celebration of color and movement we explored techniques such as realistic pigment mixing simulation, wave equations, pixel sorting and elastic fabric simulation.


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Project Description

Design

An immersive experience installed at the ground floor of NikeTown London, The "Fututre of Fitness" allowed visitors to explore and discover Nike shoes through two guided audio workout routines that focused on speed and explosiveness, as well as power and strength. The experience used Azure Kinect and optical flow tracking to capture the users' body movement in real time, influencing the visuals and sound in the room.

Using a realistic pigment mixing simulation, custom algorithms to measure the activity of body parts, a bespoke weaving algorithm using pixel sorting, and a screen-space elastic fabric simulation, the visitors could create their own unique artwork through their body movements.

The Fututre of Fitness studio was set in a 16 sq metre space with three LED walls and a mirrored ceiling, creating an immersive environment for the visitors. The project was a successful collaboration between Nike and Uncharted Limbo Collective, pushing the boundaries of technology and art to provide a memorable experience for visitors.

Project Info

Role

- Stable Fluids implementation.
- Fluid Ink algorithm development.
- Pixelated Threads algorithm development.
- Depth Camera Tracking.

Collaborators

Unit9
Nike