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Roto creates digital exhibition gallery for COX Science Center

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COX Science Center and Aquarium digital gallery concept art by roto

A floor-to-ceiling media system encourages visitors to interact

Roto, a leading planning & design-build firm, has developed a new digital exhibition gallery for a Floridian institution in West Palm Beach.

The firm was responsible for the design of an entirely immersive and interactive experience that empowers visitors to create designs and test them in a virtual environment at COX Science Center. Roto was selected for the project based on its reputation for enhancing in-house media capabilities for museums and attractions.

Focusing on the US state’s leadership in vocations including aerospace and clean tech, the digital exhibition gallery experiences comprise a multifunctional platform with a floor-to-ceiling interactive media system. 

Roto Cox Aerospace

Through a succession of high-tech motion tracking and touch point sensors, guests can engage with the 4,900 square-feet space and its content in a unique and self-directed experience found only at COX Science Center.

Media master planning

Founded by Joseph Wisne in 2004, the company’s president is a keen advocate of supersensory experiences and has been named one of the top 50 Museum Influencers by blooloop.

Some of Roto’s most notable projects include the Denver Museum of Nature and Science’s Space Odyssey exhibition, the National Museum of Military Vehicles, Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration in Montgomery, Alabama, and the National Museum of American History.

The company’s talented group of data artists, designers, developers, and hardware engineers have vast experience in creating spectacular original immersive installations and interactive spaces, taking advantage of advanced applications including AR, VR, gesture control, custom machine vision and invisible sensors to humanise technology past the touchscreen.

Forward-looking vision

Cox Science Center and Aquarium logo

Roto’s work on the Cox Center’s Digital Exhibition Gallery is a result of progress made in the firm’s current role as lead Exhibit Designer for the Cox Science Center & Aquarium Expansion project.

 “The Cox team has been very forward-looking in their vision for this space,” says Sean Ramsay, partner at Roto.

“They recognise that science centres must provide experiences that are impressive in scale, responsive to visitor curiosity, communal in nature, and highly flexible over time.”

Roto completed twenty-six projects over the past three years including projects at museums, art galleries, science centres, aquariums, zoos, galleries, and a theme park project. The company’s over eighty employees work from a 60,000-square feet location in Dublin, Ohio, with satellite offices in other US locations including Orlando, Boston and Charlotte.

Roto recently congratulated industry veteran Leo English on this retirement from Brilliant Creative Fabrication,

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