Connie Nelson, the executive director for the Alf Engen Ski
Museum, said more than 120 people attended the grand opening of the virtual ski jump
“Alf Engen’s Take Flight” at the museum in Park City, Utah on Wednesday.
“We had a fabulous grand opening,” Nelson said.
The JDHgroup, a company that designs brand experiences, was
chosen by the museum to design the jump.
Coty Creighton, an employee for JDHgroup, said the company
has worked with the museum on quite a few exhibits over the years.
“When the time came to update one of their older exhibits,
they relied on us to propose what a new modern take on an installation would
be,” Creighton said. “Their older exhibit was dated and constantly broke down.”
Creighton said the old exhibit was designed as a marble
style game where the users would guide a marble off a jump to go for distance.
After proposing the current design to the museum, the group
started by making sure the “environment responded.” Creighton said in order to
achieve this, the experience needed to include wind generators, vibrating
transducers in the floor and audio that surrounds the user.
“The result is a life-size game where players can experience
ski jumping in a safe manner,” he said.
According to Creighton, the project had a “very wide range
of challenges to meet.” Those included mechanical engineering aspects, software
development and the custom electronics that drove the experience.
“From the onset of the project, the museum wanted to
accomplish something no other museum has done before,” he said. “Both of our
expectations were high from the beginning.”
Creighton said the technical project turned out well because
of the relationship JDHgroup has with the museum and the trust it has with its
abilities. To learn more about the museum visit https://www.engenmuseum.org.
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