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How to AI with Henry: AI Photobooths and Facial-Recognition Check-Ins

AI photobooths that finally look like your guests, plus facial-recognition welcomes that make check-in personal, secure, and fun.

Henry Evans, VP, Strategy & Senior Creative Director, Proscenium · 2025-08-14

How to AI with Henry title card with Henry Evans in a speech-bubble design on pink spirals

Spoiler, the future is now.

AI Photobooths: Now ready for prime time

Just a few months ago, AI-powered photobooths at events weren’t the best idea.

The surprising reason? A lack of diversity.

AI models trained on a less-diverse set of data had an unfortunate habit of changing people’s ages, genders, and ethnicities.

Graphic of a Proscenium AI photobooth turning a selfie into a race car driver portrait

Now, that’s changing. We’ve been designing AI photobooths that create imaginative, accurate images for EVERYONE.

Our approach combines smart prompt engineering with AI models that work from a guest’s real photo, so if you get transformed into an F1 racer, soccer player, or even an astronaut, it’ll still look like you!

And that’s not the only AI innovation on our radar.

Facial Recognition: Personal, Secure, and Fun

We’re also designing custom welcome experiences that recognize attendees as they arrive, greet them, and instantly pull up their profile to offer personalized info.

Illustration contrasting a long check-in line, the old way, with facial recognition check-in, the new way

Facial recognition on its own isn’t anything new, but combining it with AI-generated speech or directions makes for a future-proofed, frictionless check-in.

We take privacy seriously, too. Today, we rely on secure, enterprise-grade providers to handle facial recognition, and as the tech evolves, we’ll continue to lead with responsible, guest-first implementation.

So, in a nutshell, here’s how we’re approaching AI in events:

  • FUN: we’ve cracked the AI photobooth problem with custom-built solutions.

  • PERSONALIZED: we’re pioneering AI-powered guest check-ins which adapt to every attendee.

  • SECURE: we vet the tech platforms we use to ensure they’re trustworthy, and design our AI systems with privacy in mind, so innovation never comes at the cost of attendee trust.

The future is now, and we’re excited to be shaping it for the better.

About the author

Henry is a super creative guy