La Serre des Mondes, Futuroscope

Modulo Kinetic at the Heart of La Serre des Monde, Futuroscope’s New Immersive and Interactive Attraction

To mark its 39th season, Futuroscope has unveiled several new installations centered on visual immersion. Among the headline additions is La Serre des Mondes (“The Greenhouse of Worlds”), an immersive and interactive experience that transports visitors into a fantastical botanical universe. The attraction relies on a state-of-the-art projection system combined with LiDAR sensors, all orchestrated by Modulo Pi’s Modulo Kinetic media server.

Following a record-breaking 2.6 million visitors in 2025, Futuroscope launched its 39th season on February 7, introducing a range of new attractions that celebrate immersive experiences and large-scale visuals—core elements of the park’s identity.

Among these new offerings, La Serre des Mondes invites guests into a dreamlike botanical world. Conceived by Futuroscope in collaboration with FMD, the attraction is a complete transformation of the former Sébastien Loeb Racing Xperience ride.

Yannis Marchet, Development and Projects Manager at FMD, explains: “This is the seventh life of a building that holds historical significance for the park, as it originally housed our 360° projection venue. For this new experience, we wanted to create something centered around plant life—a poetic and participatory journey.”

The park’s teams worked alongside Canadian multimedia studio Moment Factory to design a multisensory immersive walkthrough spanning four successive spaces, each capable of accommodating up to 70 visitors.

After watching a film featuring Professor Isaac Verdelius, a visionary botanist and collector of plant species from uncharted worlds, visitors begin their journey by entering the Workshop.

Here, the first glimpses of a magical and previously unseen botanical realm emerge. Holograms of unknown specimens come to life when approached, plants that visitors are invited to smell trigger bursts of air, and other species vibrate and illuminate in response to visitors’ voices.

Following this first encounter with the fantastical botanical world, guests move into the Greenhouse, the centerpiece of La Serre des Mondes.

Constructed during the summer of 2025 as an extension to the existing facilities, this new space offers a unique immersive and interactive experience. Covering nearly 300 square meters with a height of 6 meters, the environment is brought to life through monumental projections covering both walls and floor, powered by 16 Barco I600 projectors.

To bring this spectacular projection mapping experience to life, FMD relied on Version 7 of Modulo Pi’s Modulo Kinetic media server, deployed several months ahead of its official release.

Modulo Kinetic Version 7 significantly streamlined the video mapping workflow. The projection system leverages Modulo Pi’s new 3D projector auto-calibration module. Using six PoE cameras installed throughout the space, Modulo Kinetic automatically calculates projector blending zones and geometric warping in just a few minutes. The result is a perfectly calibrated projection with seamless image consistency across the entire surface, including the venue’s curved corners.

The Greenhouse experience is also highly interactive. As visitors move through the space, visual effects emerge beneath their feet, and they are assigned a mission: collect pollen projected onto the floor beneath the metal greenhouse structure located at the center of the room, and transport it toward the walls through their movements, helping to nourish the virtual vegetation displayed around the space. As a result, every movement generates real-time visual effects, creating a truly collective experience driven by the active participation of each visitor.

The installation relies on two Ouster OS0 LiDAR sensors. Mounted high on opposite sides of the room, the sensors track the movements of every visitor. Through Modulo Kinetic, data from both LiDAR units is merged, enabling the system to accurately capture the position and movement of every individual across the venue’s 300-square-meter area.

The media server then transmits this data to TouchDesigner via the TUIO 3D protocol. TouchDesigner generates real-time visual content, which is distributed through Modulo Kinetic and its ultra-low-latency capture cards.

“Capturing up to 70 people simultaneously with LiDAR and generating real-time interaction was the biggest challenge of this installation,” notes Yannis Marchet. “Modulo Pi carried out a significant amount of development work to meet our requirements, but the results speak for themselves. It’s truly a shared interaction among all 70 visitors that brings the entire space to life, because each person contributes to nourishing the plants through their movements.”

After experiencing the impact humans can have on the enchanted botanical world of La Serre des Mondes, visitors continue through the Airlock, where Professor Verdelius reappears in a film sequence to entrust them with a final mission to complete during the last stage of the experience.

Guests then enter a vast circular room and discover the Specimen: a spectacular tree standing more than 8 meters tall and spanning 3 meters across, illuminated by four Epson projectors repurposed from the former Sébastien Loeb Racing Xperience attraction.

Having previously hosted multiple 360° projection experiences, this circular venue has now been reinvented through video mapping projected onto a monumental millennia-old tree sculpture positioned at its center. “Visitors may be familiar with projection mapping on buildings, but not necessarily on complex, organic structures like a tree. That was exactly our objective. We wanted to surprise them,” says Yannis Marchet.

Once again, the video mapping is powered by Modulo Kinetic and its 3D projector auto-calibration technology. Using eight cameras connected to the media server, the mapping is automatically calculated to perfectly conform to the tree’s organic structure and intricate details.

Yannis Marchet explains:

“During installation, the auto-calibration system allowed us to move incredibly quickly. If we ever need to replace a projector, we can simply relaunch the calibration process and the entire tree will be remapped in less than 20 minutes. The time savings are remarkable.”

The specimen tree is surrounded by 18 tentacle-like roots connected to 18 drums positioned around the perimeter of the room. Visitors are invited to gather around these instruments to complete their final mission: restoring the majestic tree to its full glory.

LED strips extend from the tree along its roots to each drum. Whenever streams of light traveling from the tree reach a drum, visitors are prompted to strike the instrument. The captured sound then sends a stream of light back toward the specimen, which in turn triggers a DMX signal across the pixel-mapped LED ribbons.

The pace gradually accelerates as more drums are struck, helping to nourish the ancient tree and restore its brilliance through an increasingly vibrant projection. “Of course, we wanted an attraction with real ‘wow’ moments, but we were also looking for something that would allow families to share an experience and actively participate together,” adds Yannis Marchet.

In addition, the entire show control system for La Serre des Mondes is handled by Modulo Kinetic. “This is a first for us, because until now we had relied on a dedicated show control solution for more than twenty years,” says Yannis Marchet. “Now the entire architecture runs on Modulo Kinetic. We’re extremely satisfied with it, and it eliminates the need for an additional interface.”

Day-to-day operation of the attraction is therefore managed directly through the media server. Each day, the attraction operator accesses a control station equipped with a dedicated panel used to initiate opening procedures.

All projectors and attraction interfaces are automatically powered on, and a test page allows operators to verify that every system is functioning correctly. Once validation is complete, the first show of the day can be launched for the initial group of 70 visitors, directly from the same control panel.

The four stages of the experience flow seamlessly thanks to the automated opening of doors throughout the attraction. The operator interface displays countdown timers and live camera feeds from each room, providing real-time monitoring of visitor progression through the pavilion and enabling staff to efficiently prepare for incoming groups.

When necessary, operators can also adjust transition times between rooms directly from the panel. This functionality is particularly valuable for accommodating visitors with disabilities, allowing the duration spent in each area to be dynamically adapted as needed.

To power the projection mapping, Greenhouse interactivity, and show control systems, the Modulo Kinetic installation includes one Kinetic Designer workstation connected to six V-Node servers equipped with four outputs each. An additional backup server ensures uninterrupted operation for an attraction that runs seven days a week.

Officially opened in February 2026, La Serre des Mondes quickly won over audiences with its unique blend of immersive storytelling and large-scale interactivity. It also represents a successful and strategic redevelopment for Futuroscope, as Yannis Marchet points out: “La Serre des Mondes is located at the crossroads of several major attractions within the park. With a throughput approaching 1,000 visitors per hour, it helps us ease congestion at neighboring attractions during peak attendance periods.”