The War of the Worlds – The Immersive Experience
Our Energy Futures, Make the Future Live
Move Yourself Interactive Dance Projection
Fethard Horse Country Experience
Escape – Illuminate Light Festival
Bait Ball – Illuminate Light Festival
Steer a Container Ship Into Port
Sheikh Abdullah Al Salem Cultural Centre, Kuwait Space Museum
Darren Perry is the project lead and lead Unity software developer for all interactive software at The Media Workshop. Overseeing bespoke teams of developers and artists, heading up quality control, mentoring and skills development. Based in Bristol, UK.
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Technical Lead – OKKO Health
Delivering a complete transition of OKKO’s mobile app from Unity to Flutter with embedded Unity content. Leading mobile and backend development team, mentoring, code review and teaching, responsible for all releases. Defining development processes, setting up CI/CD, writing SOPs and building compliance with ISO standards. Taking over all responsibilities of outgoing CTO at the beginning of 2022.
Move Yourself Interactive Dance Projection
Originally commissioned by the Theatre and Circus field at Glastonbury 2019, built with Unity’s Visual Effect Graph using Keijiro’s work with the Realsense depth camera. Also shown at Port Elliot and Shambala festivals.
The War of the Worlds – The Immersive Experience
Leading a team of Unity Developers at Layered Reality to create interactive VR experiences for Jeff Wayne’s The War of the Worlds: The Immersive Experience.
– Optitrack setup and calibration
– VR Optitrack integration
– Networked VR
– Leap Motion
Atturaif Visitor Reception Center, Riyadh
The Media Workshop were contracted by Newangle to develop 10 bespoke touchscreen interactive experiences
Our Energy Futures, Make the Future Live
Imagination contracted The Media Workshop to create a large interactive wall showcasing Shell’s understanding of the future of energy use.
Shell Polymers Interactive Wall, National Plastics Expo
The Media Workshop were contracted by Imagination to create a large interactive touchscreen exhibit at the National Plastics Show 2018
Sheikh Abdullah Al Salem Cultural Centre, Kuwait City
The Media Workshop were contracted by Newangle to develop 12 bespoke touchscreen interactive experiences
Fethard Horse Country Experience
The Media Workshop were contracted by Newangle to create three touchscreen interactive exhibits centred around Ireland’s horse country.
Ahmad Al-Jaber Oil & Gas Exhibition
The Media Workshop were contracted by Newangle to develop six bespoke touchscreen interactive experiences with museum wide user registration and activity tracking via RFID cards, a large multi user touch table and a large multi user interactive floor game.
Energy Science Centre, Dhahran
The Media Workshop were contracted by Newangle to create four bespoke touchscreen interactive exhibits.
King Salman Science Oasis Museum – Riyadh
The Media Workshop were contracted by Newangle to create four bespoke touchscreen interactive exhibits
Virtual Tour, Charles Dickens Museum
The Media Workshop were contracted by Newangle to create a virtual tour of the museum, including 360 degree photography of all rooms.
Modelling the Climate, Science Museum, London
During my time at HMC Interactive I was part of the small team that built a climate modelling interactive for the Science Museum in London.
Paparazzi Wall at the Sky Backstage Bar, O2 Arena, London
As you entered the backstage bar at the O2 Arena, you’re invited to walk the red carpet and have your photo taken. After which, your photo is visible on the photo wall in the bar area and you receive a card with a web address and a code to download your photo. As part of HMC Interactive, I built and installed all software aspects of this project using OpenFrameworks and PHP. The project was designed and managed by Newangle.