Singapore Odyssea:
A Journey Through Time
CraveFX is proud to have played a key role in the creation of Singapore Odyssea, the National Museum of Singapore’s latest permanent experience. A sweeping, immersive journey through 700 years of Singapore’s history, now open to the public within the iconic Glass Rotunda.
Commissioned to lead the multimedia production and interactive design, CraveFX worked closely with partners, Kin Productions, GSM Project, E&E and the museum team to bring this ambitious vision to life. The result is a multi-sensory experience that reimagines how history can be told through immersive visuals, evocative soundscapes and meaningful interaction.
Visitors embark on a digital voyage aboard a vessel, travelling through dynamically animated environments that reflect key moments in Singapore’s evolution from ancient shores and colonial encounters to modern day cityscapes. The narrative is shaped not by text, but by atmosphere and symbolism with water serving as both metaphor and medium.
At the heart of the experience is a reactive companion wristband, at the heart of the journey is an interactive companion, a creature inspired by Singapore’s native fauna designed not just to accompany visitors, but to subtly spark awareness of our fragile ecosystems and the deep ties between environment, identity, and memory.
The Lower Drum Experience
As visitors descend a spiral ramp, companion creatures emerge and follow alongside them, triggering runes along the path that briefly reveal stories from each historical period. At the foot of the ramp, visitors arrive at the Lower Drum, where they are enveloped by a towering 360-degree waterfall. As they approach the cascade, the water parts to form openings that reveal immersive glimpses of Singapore’s past—progressing from ancient origins through to the present day.
Elnathan engineered the complete Unreal Engine + nDisplay architecture for the virtual waterfall installation, owning system design, implementation, and integration. He built the real-time interaction pipeline driving the 360-degree cylindrical projection, enabling coordinate-driven waterfall openings and synchronized environmental animations depicting four pivotal moments in Singapore’s history. The system also orchestrates a UDP-based handshake with a 10-meter interactive LED floor, coordinating real-time ripple simulations and environment transitions—from ancient seas to post-war urban textures—across visuals, tracking inputs, and display outputs.
UDP–Driven Waterfall Interaction Pipeline
The virtual waterfall system operates as a real-time, event-driven pipeline within Unreal Engine, synchronizing visual state with the external interactive LED floor via UDP messaging. The system as a whole prioritizes episode synchronization, and coordinate-based interaction (mapping across the 360° cylindrical projection), while using an object pooling system to trigger waterfall openings.
