BP – Future TECH

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Interactive Installation
Motion Design
Mixed-reality experience Solarflare built for BP, letting audiences step inside four pillars of their future strategy: transport, oil and gas, plastics, and renewables.
Visualising a decades-long strategy in real space
BP asked us to help them visualise four pillars of their future, transport, oil and gas, plastics, and renewables, in a single immersive mixed-reality experience.The brief demanded something that could hold the attention of investors and senior partners across multiple events, while making long-horizon strategy feel concrete and immediate. We designed a HoloLens-led mixed-reality environment where each pillar occupied its own spatial zone, letting audiences physically move through BP's thinking rather than sit through a deck. The format removed the presenter as the only conduit for information. People could explore at their own pace and return to the aspects most relevant to them.
Four pillars, one coherent world
Designing for mixed reality means designing for ambiguity. Physical rooms vary, lighting conditions change, and audiences arrive with different levels of technical comfort. We built each pillar as a self-contained experience that could run independently or as part of a linear journey, giving BP's events team maximum flexibility across different venues and audience configurations.The content architecture mapped directly to BP's own strategic language, so every holographic element reinforced messaging their leadership team was already using. Nothing felt bolted on. The visual language stayed restrained, spatial environments that read as authoritative rather than spectacular, which suited the investor-facing context.
Immersive, accurate and designed to hold a room
Mixed reality at this scale is fundamentally a conversation tool. The experience gave BP's presenters a physical referent to anchor complex discussions about energy transition, something they could point to, walk audiences through, and leave behind as a talking point. For audiences used to slide decks, the format itself communicated BP's commitment to forward-thinking technology before a single word was spoken.Deployed across multiple live events, the experience consistently outperformed traditional presentation formats on audience dwell time. It positioned BP's Expo presence as a genuine demonstration of the innovation culture they were describing.