AI Photobooth
A full-stack AI photobooth for pop-ups, museums, and brand events: tap an iPad and walk away with a portrait that keeps your likeness in a new world, no app download and no training on user data.
The Experience
Walk Up
An iPad on a stand runs the web app, no sign-up or download.
Capture
Tap, 3-second countdown, flash, photo captured.
Preview
The guest confirms the capture and sends it to generation.
Generate
The AI transforms the photo in ~15 seconds while loading text explains what is happening.
Take Home
The finished image lands on a branded page with a QR code to download, share, or revisit.
How It Works
Identity Preservation
The AI is fine-tuned to keep the guest's likeness - facial features, skin tone, expression - in new environments, styles, and scenarios. Single pass, no pre-training, and no user data stored or used for training.
Infinite Scenarios
Courtside at the Super Bowl, inside a cartoon, on stage at a concert, next to a celebrity. Each preset is a prompt configuration for scene, style, and compositing rules, so new scenarios spin up for any brand, event, or theme.
Owned Ecosystem
Capture app, generation pipeline, display, QR landing page, and distribution are all built in-house. That means full control of branding, privacy, and monetization, with no photobooth vendor in the loop.
Built for Activations
Made for pop-ups, museum installations, brand activations, festivals, and retail. The iPad-on-stand setup is portable and only needs WiFi.
Generated Outputs
Proven in the Field
4th Annual Friends & FANmily Game
An outdoor, all-ages back-to-school community day at Victory Field in Queens, August 2026, put on by Mets creators and sponsors including the Fanatics Fan Advisory Network and AmazinVntg. I ran the trading-card booth: one selfie in, a card of yourself in a batting pose out, sponsor logos on the back.
170+ cards in one day, zero timeouts, no laptop on site; copy tweaks and a faster countdown went live from a phone mid-game. amNY covered the day; the “virtual trading card activation” in their write-up is this booth. Read the amNY story.
Designed for the Bad Day
Image APIs fail a few percent of the time, so every failure path gets an instant retry and plain on-screen copy. Stress tests set the timeout budget; the first real guests set the countdown speed and changed the capture prompt from batting pose to selfie, since the system poses the guest.
Cards above come from the event pipeline; the people in them are generated, so no guest's face appears without asking.
Use Cases
Brand Pop-Ups
Product launches, store openings, sponsored events, with branded presets and a shareable takeaway.
Museums & Exhibitions
Visitors become part of the exhibit: inside famous paintings, historical moments, or imagined futures.
Festivals & Live Events
High-throughput for concerts, food festivals, and cultural events; the QR page keeps working after.
