Pulse! The Electric Odyssey, Futuroscope

Futuroscope Pavilion Reopens with New Interactive Experiences Powered by Modulo Kinetic

In April 2026, Futuroscope Park unveiled Pulse! The Electric Odyssey, a new interactive, self-guided attraction centered on the theme of energy and the associated challenges. Located inside one of Futuroscope’s most iconic historic buildings, The Electric Odyssey features a series of educational and entertaining interactive experiences spread across more than 1,200 m². For this ambitious renovation project, the park’s teams relied on Modulo Pi’s media servers, including the new Version 7 of Modulo Kinetic, which drives several of the attraction’s interactive experiences.

For its 39th season, the Futuroscope Pavilion has undergone a complete transformation. Instantly recognizable by its building shaped like an inclined plane topped with a white sphere, the park’s founding and iconic landmark reopened its doors last April.

With the renovation of this historic pavilion originally built in 1984, Futuroscope is reaffirming its mission as a park of the future dedicated to inspiring visitors through innovation and emerging technologies. The project is built around two complementary experiences.

The first is Campus Numeria, a 2,500 m² innovation hub dedicated to digital technologies. Designed to welcome schoolchildren, students, and teachers, the venue hosts workshops covering topics such as robotics, artificial intelligence and digital transformation.

The second is Pulse! The Electric Odyssey, a self-guided, interactive attraction dedicated to energy. Developed in partnership with EDF (Electricité de France) and Dalkia, the experience spans more than 1,200 m² and combines a series of playful, educational installations featuring scenic design by La Prod est dans le Pré and system integration by FMD, the Futuroscope in-house technical team.

Designed to raise awareness of the energy transition and encourage visitors of all ages to become active participants in tomorrow’s energy landscape, the attraction is structured around several key experiences powered by Modulo Pi media servers. 

Visitors are welcomed into a spacious lobby featuring an impressive wind turbine model alongside a five-meter-long drone, offering a glimpse of cutting-edge technologies. In this same space, In this same space, a set of 30 LED panels comes together to create a large and deconstructed video display driven by a Modulo Player media server, showcasing visuals illustrating the future of energy.

The immersive journey then begins with the entry into a room centered around a spectacular 15-meter model of Futuroscope Park. Projection mapped using four BenQ short-throw projectors powered by a four-output Modulo Player Pro media server, the model highlights the initiatives shaping the future of the park.

Through a combination of 2D and 3D animations projected across the scale model, visitors discover the sustainability initiatives already implemented by the park to become energy self-sufficient and fully decarbonized by 2026. The ten-minute experience therefore raises public awareness of concrete actions related to biodiversity, water management, waste reduction and low-carbon mobility.

Among the attraction’s interactive workshops is the Kids Factory, designed especially for younger visitors. Children can choose from a series of illustrated animal templates, color their favorite, then scan their drawing to watch it appear inside a large immersive projection depicting a nuclear power plant and its surrounding ecosystem. Fish, rabbits and birds come to life with their own unique colors inside an animated world created by creative studio Spectre Lab.

The installation features a 4 x 2.5-meter projection powered by a Barco projector driven by Modulo Pi’s Modulo Kinetic media server. Each coloring sheet includes several QR codes allowing the system to automatically identify the selected animal during scanning.

Thanks to a Modulo Bridge device ensuring communication between the scanner and the media server, the scanned drawing is instantly transmitted and processed. Modulo Kinetic recognizes the animal, applies the child’s coloring as a texture to a pre-animated 3D model, and integrates it into the projected scene in real time. Only moments after being scanned, the personalized animal joins the interactive environment with its unique colors and distinctive appearance.

The experience provides a fun introduction to low-carbon electricity production, and the major challenges of the energy transition, such as climate and biodiversity preservation.

Another major highlight is a fully immersive interactive room offering a playful, sensory exploration of electricity. “This topic was particularly important to our partner EDF” explains Yannis Marchet, Development & Projects Manager at FMD. “The idea is to demonstrate how EDF harnesses the physical properties of electrons to convey energy.”

Designed to accommodate up to 40 visitors simultaneously, the 135 m² immersive room combines an Absen LED floor with a 4.8 mm pixel pitch, and eight Barco G60 projectors covering the surrounding walls, all driven by Modulo Kinetic. “The biggest challenge with this room was the ceiling height” says Yannis Marchet. “With barely 2.5 meters of clearance, creating an immersive interactive room with extremely low latency was a real technical challenge.”

To meet these requirements, FMD’s teams collaborated closely with Modulo Pi, gaining early access to Version 7 of Modulo Kinetic several months before its official release. The installation relies on one Kinetic Designer workstation connected to two four-output V-Node servers driving the wall projections, and one six-output V-Node server powering the LED floor.

To give the experience its interactive dimension, four Ouster OSDome hemispherical LiDAR sensors were installed in the room. These sensors continuously emit infrared laser beams, making it possible to detect every visitor’s position and movement.

With Version 7, Modulo Kinetic merges data from all four LiDAR sensors into a single point cloud processed in real time by the media server. Based on this live spatial map tracking up to 40 visitors simultaneously, Modulo Kinetic generates interactive visuals using its integrated 3D engine together with its node-based programming environment.

“Modulo Kinetic enables us to achieve technical performances and offer experiences that simply wouldn’t have been possible otherwise, or only with an extremely complex and cumbersome setup” notes Yannis Marchet.

As visitors enter the immersive room, they encounter streams of particles flowing across the LED floor. Their footsteps repel the particles, which gradually gather into 40 individual energy spheres distributed throughout the space.

Each participant is invited to stand on one of these spheres before moving freely around the room. The associated particle sphere follows that visitor’s movements, while neighboring particle systems collide, merge and evolve as visitors interact with one another.

At the same time, these movements affect energy gauges projected onto the surrounding walls, illustrating how electricity is generated through the movement of electrons.

Additional interactive sequences, all centered around electricity and energy, respond dynamically to visitor activity throughout the experience.

“Modulo Pi demonstrated the full power of its development platform on this installation” adds Yannis Marchet. “The audience truly creates the experience. Thanks to a 20 Hz refresh rate, latency between visitor movement and video response is extremely low.”

Beyond powering the interactive content, Modulo Kinetic also manages the attraction’s entire show control system. After relying on a dedicated show control platform for more than twenty years, FMD chose Modulo Pi’s media server to handle all show control functions—first for La Serre des Mondes, which opened in February, and then for The Electric Odyssey, inaugurated in April. “Now our entire architecture runs on Modulo Kinetic” says Yannis Marchet. “We’re extremely satisfied with it, and it eliminates the need for an additional control interface.”

Daily operation of the pavilion is managed through a custom control panel created within Modulo Kinetic. Operators use the interface to power video-projectors and LED displays on and off, launch the daily diagnostic procedures performed before opening, start scheduled shows, and automatically control the doors leading to both the scale-model room and the immersive interactive room throughout the day.

Opened in early April, Pulse! The Electric Odyssey was officially inaugurated on June 19. “Project timelines continue to shrink” concludes Yannis Marchet. “From design and procurement to delivery and on-site integration, everything now happens in less than a year. That’s also one of Modulo Pi‘s strengths: the ability to respond quickly to highly innovative projects.”