EchoVision: A Mixed Reality Bat Experience

Sunday, September 6, 1 to 5 p.m.

• Education
• Members
• Public

Step into the fascinating sensory world of bats with EchoVision, an immersive mixed reality experience that lets you explore how bats navigate using echolocation. Wearing custom bat-shaped headsets, participants use their own voices to visualize sound as it bounces off the surrounding environment, revealing how bats “see” in the dark.

The experience also features AI-assisted interpretations of bat vocalizations, transforming different types of bat calls—including those associated with courtship, communication and other behaviors—into soundscapes inspired by lullabies, love songs and more, all set within natural bat habitats.

Inspired by philosopher Thomas Nagel’s famous essay What Is It Like to Be a Bat?, EchoVision invites visitors to consider the remarkable ways bats experience the world and offers a new perspective on one of nature’s most extraordinary mammals.

Included with museum admission.