INDE’s Augmented Reality Polar Experience Arrives at the Montreal Biodome

Published: June 20, 2016

INDE's giant-screen Augmented Reality experience has been launched at the Montreal Biodome, as a key feature of the summer programme, announced by Space for Life (Espace pour la vie) today. The Polar Experience in the city of Montreal, Canada will be open to visitors until September 5, 2016.

Space for Life brings together the city's four most prominent natural museums - the Biodome, the Insectarium, the Botanical Garden and the Rio Tinto Alcan Planetarium - and invites visitors to rethink the ties between human beings and nature. With that in mind, INDE's breathtaking BroadcastAR live Augmented Reality experience will not only keep Biodome visitors entertained, but also deliver them an important conservation message. 

The Polar Experience, installed on a large screen, immerses users in the frozen wonders of nature, enabling them to observe and interact with some of the most amazing creatures in a way like never before. It gets participants incredibly close to a beautiful killer whale, a polar bear and other photo-realistic animated 3D animals.

Polar Experience BroadcastAR Augmented Reality by INDE @ Montreal Biodome

Alex Poulson, INDE's CEO said: “What we are building using AR is a new way to educate people about history, about the natural world, about everything they ever dreamt of experiencing but never could. Augmented Reality is not a technology, it’s a teleportation machine. It’s touching wild animals and learning about the fragile environment and our impact on it. It’s about recreating situations and environments that train, educate, inform and entertain by experiencing them first-hand.”