Loren YbarrondoImmersive experience design + production
The experience
The original U.S. Air Force experience was retired when institutional funding ended. Loren preserved and rebuilt the work, and is now connecting it with the Smithsonian Air and Space experiences so visitors can follow aircraft, technologies, and historical events across institutional boundaries.
01 / Challenge
Make the physical place make sense online.
Prevent a substantial public-history investment from disappearing while solving a larger problem: major aviation collections are physically separated even when their objects belong to the same story.
02 / Response
Design the visit, not just the interface.
Restore the surviving gallery modules, modernize their presentation, and establish a common navigation and linking model. A visitor studying the Enola Gay at Udvar-Hazy can continue to Bockscar here; a visitor looking at Discovery can move directly into the Air Force Museum’s shuttle crew compartment trainer.
03 / Result
Give every visitor a way into the story.
The foundation for a first-of-its-kind connected aviation experience—one digital journey across several of the nation’s most important air and space collections.
A closer view from the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force experience
“A virtual tour should create the urge to explore one more room, open one more story, and look a little closer.”
