PickPath

Kia ora! We’re PickPath. We’re a company of artists and developers, based in Te Whanganui-a-Tara / Wellington in Aotearoa-New Zealand. We’ve developed a new platform for creating and sharing app guided experiences, enabling cultural organisations, performance makers, experience designers, place-makers and tourist operators to connect with their audiences in new ways. Over the next six months we’re collaborating with a bunch of creatively minded organisations around the country to deliver a range of experiences, all presented on the PickPath app. These experiences include time travelling adventures, real-world gaming experiences, meditative audio walks, live festival guides, and interactive museum tours! We’re cant wait to share these with you, and - if we do say so ourselves - the ingenious features of PickPath as we go. And guess what? We’re open to collaboration! If you’re interested in trying out PickPath for your company or organisation get in touch.

The Anderson Localisation by Afterburner is a new show in the Dunedin Arts Festival that takes the PickPath platform into the quantum realm! Here's co-creator Marty Roberts talking to RNZ about it (and all the other shows he is working on for the festival). https://lnkd.in/gTBE5cWv

Check out this new video introducing you to the latest PickPath experience, Te Huanui a Māui | The Path of Māui, developed in partnership with Te Papa Tongarewa Museum of New Zealand. The experience is a journey through the popular Te Taiao | Nature exhibition at Te Papa, guided by that legendary trickster, Māui himself. This short movie explains what the PickPath platform is and shows the experience in action. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/gB-srmyE

Yesterday, the PickPath team joined our Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa colleagues at the entrance to Te Taiao | Nature to officially launch our latest collaboration: Te Huanui a Māui | The Path of Māui. This interactive mobile experience unlocks the stories within the exhibition – visitors can now explore Te Taiao | Nature through the eyes of Māui, the legendary adventurer, innovator, and shapeshifter. With immersive soundscapes, custom narration, animations, and fun interactive surprises, it’s a whole new way to engage with the exhibition and uncover hidden stories. We’re thrilled to bring this experience to Te Papa’s visitors, offering fresh perspectives on one of Aotearoa’s most loved exhibitions – all while empowering them with mātauranga to be kaitiaki taiao (protectors of nature). Scan the QR code at the exhibition entrance to download the free PickPath app and start your journey with Māui – the greatest innovator of them all.

All of us on the PickPath team are delighted that Afterburner have chosen to use our platform for their forthcoming show at the Dunedin Festival. The Anderson Localisation is a going to be a fascinating combination of art and science as it "takes you on a journey into the quantum world where the past, present and future co-exist." Only five sessions over two days – tickets are strictly limited. https://lnkd.in/gKQ6M32X

Encounter opens today as part of the BATS Theatre 6 Degrees Festival and co-creator Cadence Chung spoke to RNZ Culture 101 about it. The show uses PickPath as the platform for a guided audio-walk around Te Aro that follows the stories of early Chinese immigrants at the turn of the 20th century.

Coming soon! PickPath is delighted to be the technology platform for Encounter, the forthcoming innovative theatre piece by Cadence Chung and Dog Year Productions. An interactive guided walk through Wellington Chinese history, the show runs from 10-14 Dec around Te Aro. Book at BATS Theatre. https://lnkd.in/gsdna28z

Multiple choice steps are some of the most powerful tools for building creative guided experiences on the PickPath platform. They offer opportunities for interaction, they give users the power to engage with versions of an experience tailored to their choices, and they encourage your audiences to return over again to try the different choices. In the third video in our "introduction to PickPath" series, Karin shows you how to integrate them into your projects with some simple examples. You can get some very sophisticated outcomes using these tools. https://lnkd.in/g3CWAbV5

A wonderful team of creatives from Te Whanganui-a-Tara are collaborating on Encounter, an innovative piece of storytelling about the city's Chinese history, and they are looking for support from the community via Boosted. They are using our platform as the foundation technology for their narrative-driven audio walk and we couldn't be happier. https://lnkd.in/gde4czxt

Here's another video introduction to the PickPath experience development platform, showing you how easy it is to get started with the creator studio canvas. It's a great way to get your ideas down and iterate your way to some improved audience engagement. https://lnkd.in/gzQMAHAF