Interactive Virtual 3D Aquarium

For the Southern General Hospital Children's Outpatients Department (photo: Andy Buchanan)

Interactive Virtual 3D Aquarium

Designed to present a calming, ever changing, engaging interactive to short and long-term hospital visitors (photo: Andy Buchanan)

Interactive Virtual 3D Aquarium

Design requirements: Interaction Design, User Experience Design, Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, Away3D, Creative Direction

Interactive Virtual 3D Aquarium

All fish types react in different ways to user touch, mimicking the real world to some degree

Interactive Virtual 3D Aquarium

Fish can be fed from time to time

Interactive Virtual 3D Aquarium

Prototyping the 3D world

Southern General Hospital Interactive 3D Aquarium

The brief here was to design an interactive 3D aquarium that would present a calming, ever changing, engaging play thing to short and long-term hospital visitors.

The aquarium has varied fish types which all resond differently to user touch

An infra-red overmount is used over two large edge to edge portrait monitors to present a 'window into a virtual underwater world.'

The aquarium has been featured on television programmes about the new children's wing of the new hospital which is curated by Yorkhill Children's Charity and is a fantastic and modern space.