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Open for pilots — London · thetribe.team
A global immersive-experiences studio for museums, galleries & exhibitions
Quiet objects behind glass become worlds people step inside. We capture artefacts and entire sites in exacting detail — then bring them alive, everywhere.
02 · The shift
We now spend more than twenty years of our lives in front of screens — and those screens are becoming spaces. As spatial computing moves attention from the phone in your hand to the room around you, audiences arrive expecting to step inside, not just stand back. Behind glass, an artefact competes with that expectation — and loses.
Immersive isn't our pivot — it's what our founders have been building, globally, since 2016.
Illustrative simulation · visitor movement by demographic — drag the slider to scrub between eras, tap a group to follow it.
03 · The evidence
Let people step inside it, and they stay for hours.
27 seconds is the average a visitor spends with an artwork (Smith & Smith, the Met). At Frameless — London's largest immersive gallery — most stay close to two hours.
What the digital layer does to a visit
Why now — and why it's a London advantage
And every scan is permanent — a millimetre-accurate, restorable digital twin of the work. Figures are independent studies & UK sector data — indicative of typical uplift, not guarantees.
04 · Our answer
We move a collection the whole way from traditional to immersive — and we do every part of it. Four moves, end to end; start with one, or let us take you across all four.
Digital twins
Engaging experiences
Live it in MR
Anywhere, on the web
Most “going digital” means a screen on the wall. We mean the whole transformation — and we do all of it.
One studio · the complete arc
05 · Foundation
A digital twin is a millimetre-accurate 3D replica — geometry, colour and surface — of a real artefact or an entire site. We've been making them since 2016, without ever touching the original: a non-contact scan that records every detail in minutes, not hours.
Non-invasive scan of a real artefact
From a single artefact to an entire fortress.
Golconda Fort · complete site digital twin
A twin, live in an interactive space
Exploring a captured twin
Another heritage site, twinned
More from the twin library
Every scan lives in a library you own and can host on the web — and beyond display, the same twins go to work:
We've been building immersive since 2016 — capture teams who've twinned delicate objects and entire monuments alike, upgrading to the latest scanning tech as it ships.
06 · Pre-visit
Augmented reality turns posters, tickets, newspaper ads and social posts into living doorways — a digital layer that opens on any phone, with no app to download.
↓ how it reaches them
AR enriches the physical world with a digital overlay, seamlessly blending the real and the virtual. Reachable through any standard smartphone, it overcomes spatial constraints and draws larger audiences — reach and curiosity, working for you before anyone walks in.
AR newspaper ads · a live, interactive layer on ordinary print
More AR, out in the wild
Then — Arrival
The same digital layer, now contextual to the moment they walk in. AR on the ticket and brochure welcomes them, points the way and sets the tone — turning a throwaway stub into the opening scene of the visit.
Contextual AR on a ticket & brochure
07 · In-gallery
Point a phone at any point of interest and it answers — objects deepen, elements lift into the room. Weave those moments together with indoor AR navigation, and each visitor walks a curated path that's theirs alone: past the things they came for, and a few they never knew to look for.
Lift a phone to an artefact — or any point of interest in the room — and the layer appears: story, context, hidden detail, elements rising off the object itself. A passing glance becomes minutes; minutes become memory.
Artefact AR · an overlay at the object
Point at a feature — elements pop into the space
Now thread those moments together with indoor AR navigation. Each visitor gets a curated, personalised route — never lost, always guided to what matters most to them. Proven indoors across retail and offices; the same engine choreographs your galleries.
Indoor AR navigation · retail
Indoor AR navigation · office
Most of a collection never reaches the floor. With the digital twins from your capture library, those objects surface in AR — placed in the gallery, turned in the hand, finally part of the visit.
08 · Deep immersion
With Apple Vision Pro, deep mixed reality turns a dedicated space — or the entire building — into a living world the whole family explores at once. Walk through it, reach out, and touch it.
This isn't a headset in the corner for one person at a time. It's a shared world the whole group stands inside together — and every object can open a contextual world of its own.
Mixed reality · the exhibit steps off the plinth and into the room
09 · Installations & kiosks
The same digital twins drive self-serve kiosks and room-scale interactive screens. Visitors zoom into an object, turn it over and dig into its story at their own pace — and on a giant screen, the whole gallery leans in together.
Large-scale interactive screen · twin-powered
And none of it is trapped in the building — the same experiences live on the web too: touring digital editions, open to anyone, no ticket required.
10 · How we work
A deliberately low-risk way in: a single, scoped pilot you can put in front of visitors in weeks, not quarters — with your data, your IP and your collection handled to your standards throughout.
~1–2 weeks
We pick one object, gallery or space and agree the pilot's goal and how we'll measure success.
~2–6 weeks
Non-contact scanning on-site, then we build the digital twin and the immersive experience around it.
Pilot goes live
It goes in front of visitors; we track dwell, engagement and response together, then decide where to scale.
Non-contact capture with white-glove care — nothing touches the original, and your team stays in the loop throughout.
The twins, the data and the IP are yours to keep, host and reuse — with no lock-in of any kind.
A London studio and UK-based delivery, with your data handled to your institution's standards.
11 · The ask
Pick a single object, gallery or exhibition. We'll capture it, build the immersive layer and put a working pilot in front of your visitors — so you can see the dwell, the delight and the numbers for yourself, before committing to anything bigger.
Open for pilots — London
