In the daytime, Unream is an artifact that reflects sunlight to display dynamically; at night, it uses artificial lights to create a fantasy-like atmosphere. With Unream, the designers hope to blur the line between the digital and physical world, bringing impossible materials to real-world product design. Unream is the first 3D printed object that displays dynamically by itself. With multi-material voxel printing, the designers expand binary material presence to dynamic material experience, reimagining the relationship between human, space, and objects.

MIT HCI Engineering Group builds novel hardware and software tools to advance personal fabrication technologies with the goal to lower the entry barrier for users to become technical innovators. The group is part of MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and is led by Prof. Stefanie Mueller.