ASICS – METASPEED™ Launch

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Interactive Installation
Motion Design
Consumer-facing WebGL experience Solarflare built with Edelman for the ASICS METASPEED launch, taking the Virtual Reality Innovation Summit global in-browser.
Taking the Innovation Summit global in a browser
Built with Edelman for the METASPEED launch, a consumer-facing WebGL experience that brought aspects of the Virtual Reality Innovation Summit global.The brief was about reach. A physical Innovation Summit is limited by geography and capacity. A consumer WebGL experience removes both constraints while retaining the immersive quality that makes a summit feel like more than a product presentation. We built something that ran in-browser without plugins or downloads, accessible on any device capable of handling WebGL, letting ASICS reach athletes and consumers across markets simultaneously rather than sequentially.
Performance engineering for consumer hardware
Consumer-facing WebGL is a harder technical brief than enterprise or event-facing work. The device range is enormous, from high-end laptops to mid-range phones, and the experience has to work well across all of it. We built the rendering pipeline with explicit performance tiers, ensuring the core experience held quality on lower-spec devices while delivering the full visual treatment for users with the hardware to support it.The METASPEED product is built around speed science, so the technical credibility of the experience mattered beyond aesthetics. An in-browser environment that ran slowly or felt unpolished would have undermined the product message directly. The WebGL build needed to feel fast because METASPEED is about fast.
Summit content without the summit limitations
The Virtual Reality Innovation Summit format gave ASICS a strong editorial structure to build the launch around. Our job was to make that structure work at consumer scale, taking content designed for an event audience and repackaging it for people encountering the brand in their own time, on their own devices, without a presenter to guide them through it.The experience reached audiences across multiple markets simultaneously, compressing a launch timeline that would have required multiple physical events into a single global moment. For Edelman and ASICS, that compression was the commercial argument. The same production investment delivered reach that a tour of summits could not have matched.