Immersive Dining Experiences for Restaurants, Bars and Dinners
Immersive Dining Experiences for Restaurants, Bars and Dinners
Today's diners aren't just looking for great food. They want a room worth remembering, a moment worth sharing and a reason to book again.
We design, build and run projection-mapped dining spaces for restaurants, bars and event hosts, from a permanent 5D dining room to a single gala dinner. If you are planning a concept or a dinner event, tell us about the room and the menu.
How we build an immersive dining experience
An immersive dining experience changes the room around the meal with projection, sound and light, scene by scene, while guests eat. Our rule is simple: we recommend making the food the star of the show and building the experience around what is on the menu.
What sets dining apart from other projection work is that every canvas also has to serve dinner. Tables take plates and spills, the room runs service after service, and the system has to be ready again the next night.
What we handle for a restaurant or dinner
- A site audit. The first step is to audit the restaurant and identify the available projection locations, then plan any changes the room needs.
- Custom fabrication. We design and fabricate the fixtures the room needs, including tabletops built as projection surfaces.
- Electrical, installation and tech support. For a restaurant build, our team covers fabrication, electrical and installation through to tech support.
- Content and soundscapes. We produce the content and score it with custom music and sound effects, so picture and sound move together through the meal.
- The outside of the building. Building projection mapping on the exterior creates a vivid display that draws guests in, and it can promote themed nights and food specials or bring your signage to life.
- Updates after opening. Fresh content gives repeat guests something new, and themes can be adjusted seasonally without major renovations.
Restaurants, bars and dinner events
Permanent restaurants. A dining room that runs every night needs equipment, servers and content designed for daily service and simple upkeep. Every surface can carry the show, from the walls to the table in front of each guest. For the tables themselves, see table projection mapping, and for a showpiece dessert, cake projection mapping.
Bars and lounges. A bar is about mood more than a seated story, so the visuals set the atmosphere around drinks, music and people coming and going. Bottle and bar-top activations for brands are covered by beverage and spirits activations.
Gala dinners and one-night events. A charity dinner or private party can be transformed for one evening, from the entrance to the centerpieces. Large banquet rooms have their own page on ballroom projection mapping, walk-in spaces on immersive projection rooms, whole venues on immersive event venues, and hotel restaurants and resorts on immersive hotel experiences.
Dining projects we have delivered
- The X Pot, Las Vegas and Chicago. Lumen and Forge designed, built, installed and produced content for this immersive spectrum restaurant, with HD 360-degree projections, thematic soundscapes and interactive light shows. The project used ten Optoma 660 projectors and a custom-built projection server for the VIP room, and the tabletop is 14 gauge aluminum with a gray powder coat, easily removable for cleaning.
- Urban Seed Foundation gala, Palms Casino, Las Vegas. For this charity dinner we created an immersive dining experience with 360 projected walls, floors, entrances and even custom mapped topiaries.
- Big Sur dome party, California. For a private birthday we built three 30ft geodesic domes on the cliffs, and the two with the most foot traffic held a bar and a dance floor, each lit by 4 15K lumen HD projectors.
- Picnic In The Alley, Las Vegas. For this Dress for Success fundraiser, a boutique epicurean event, we installed 13 projectors powered by four media servers to cover thousands of square feet of walls and foliage.
Immersive dining FAQ
They should not. The scenes are built around the menu and the pace of service, so each course arrives with its own moment rather than competing with it. Our guide to spectrum dining at The X Pot walks through all five senses.
Yes. At The X Pot our team continues to provide on-going tech support and regularly updated audiovisual content.
Often, yes. The X Pot had a dedicated room designed for the technology, and it still needed modifications, which is why we start with a site audit.
No. We built the experience, but we do not handle restaurant reservations; please contact The X Pot directly.
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Plan your immersive dining space
Send us the venue, photos or a floor plan of the room, your opening or event date, the number of guests and the theme or menu you have in mind. We will come back with a concept and a plan for the build. To see everything we do, visit our projection mapping services page, or talk to our team.
