- An AI photo booth is a staffed event station that photographs each guest once under studio light and uses generative AI to rebuild that photograph as a new portrait in a style the guest picks from a touchscreen menu.
- A generative AI booth from CEG Interactive is $5,000 for up to three hours, nationwide, and the rate covers the crew, the studio lighting, unlimited sessions, your branding on every image and an online gallery; prints are a $1,000 upgrade.
- An AI booth needs 8 by 8 feet of floor, one standard 20A circuit and an internet connection, and each look renders in 30 to 60 seconds.
Planners also call it an AI photobooth, an A.I. booth, an AI portrait or selfie station, an AI effects booth, or the booth that turns you into someone else.
CEG Interactive has run generative AI stations at conferences, trade shows and brand activations since 2023, and across 208 post-event surveys and more than 200 five-star Google reviews CEG Interactive averages 4.8 out of 5. This is a staffed rental with our camera, our lighting, our crew and a branded gallery — not an app your guests download, and not a machine for sale. It is one of all our AI experiences, and for agencies and brand teams we also build custom AI experiences to a brief.
WHAT YOU GET WITH AN AI BOOTH
Guests pick from a menu of looks you approved, so nobody types a prompt and nothing unexpected reaches the gallery. The catalog holds 138 tested looks in 11 families, and a look built from your campaign art takes 5 to 7 business days.
This is full generative AI, not a face swapped onto a template: the model rebuilds the wardrobe, the background and the lighting as one image while the guest’s face stays their own. Nothing is layered on top the way virtual props or augmented-reality accessories are; the scene is built around the person. Up to about four guests fit in one image.
Your overlay sits on every image, every file lands in one event gallery, and guests take theirs by text, email or QR code. Opt-in email addresses and survey answers are collected as guests share, and the contact list is yours to export.
AI BOOTH AT A GLANCE
HOW AN AI BOOTH RUNS AT YOUR EVENT
Three steps, and a person runs all three. Capture, transform, deliver.
- Capture. The host coaches one pose at the mark and the camera takes a single frame under studio lighting, which is the only photograph the whole process needs.
- Transform. That frame goes to an image model with a tested prompt behind the look the guest chose, and the finished portrait appears on screen in 30 to 60 seconds.
- Deliver. The portrait carries your overlay, lands in one branded event gallery and reaches the guest by text, email or QR code at the sharing station, with prints on the spot when printing is part of the package.
Nothing in that sequence needs a green screen, a prop table or a costume rail, which is why the footprint is small enough for a registration area or a trade-show booth.
AI BOOTH LOOKS YOUR GUESTS CAN PICK
Every look has been run on real faces before it is offered, and each one is a whole scene rather than a filter: a flight deck at golden hour, an old-master oil portrait, a comic-book panel, a marble bust, a ski lodge, a newspaper front page.
A guest stands inside a palace hall carved entirely from ice: translucent crystal columns, faceted ice walls refracting pale blue and silver light, a frozen chandelier of icicles overhead, and tall arched openings revealing a moonlit snowfield.
A guest stands on the flight deck of an aircraft carrier at golden hour, wind whipping across the deck.
A guest stands on a red carpet in front of a tall press wall.
A guest stands on a crimson carpet at a grand film premiere, framed by a velvet rope and a blurred wall of photographers whose flashbulbs burst in silver-white bursts.
A guest is rendered as a classical marble portrait bust on a simple stone plinth in a quiet museum gallery: veined white Carrara marble with softly polished planes and finely carved hair, cropped at the chest in the classical manner.
A guest is on a high-fashion studio cover shoot: a seamless studio backdrop in a rich saturated color, sculpted beauty lighting from a large softbox with a subtle rim light, and a faint wind machine lifting their hair.
A guest is centered in a perfectly symmetrical kaleidoscopic mandala: their surroundings, wardrobe color, and the light around them repeat outward in six mirrored wedges of jewel-toned glass, petals, and prismatic shards.
A guest is rendered as an action figure sealed in a blister pack: a molded clear plastic bubble over a bold printed backing card with a color-blocked header, a peg hole at the top, and three small accessory items molded into their own bubbles beside the figure.
You choose which looks appear on the touchscreen, so a finance conference can run portrait and editorial styles while a product launch runs only the two that match its key art. A look drawn from your own artwork, with your logo and colors inside the scene, takes 5 to 7 business days to build and approve on a range of faces.
AI BOOTHS AT CONFERENCES, TRADE SHOWS AND BRAND ACTIVATIONS
The same booth behaves differently depending on what the room is for. What changes is the format, the look set and what you brand.
| Recommendations by Project Type | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Event | Format that fits | Look set | What to brand |
| Conference or general session | Fixed set near registration or the break area | Portrait and editorial styles | Overlay and gallery |
| Trade show booth | Fixed set in the booth, or roaming the floor | Two or three tied to the product story | Overlay, backdrop, opt-in screen |
| Brand activation or launch | Fixed set with a queue, or roaming at a party | A custom look built from the campaign art | The look itself and the overlay |
| Company or holiday party | Roaming, so nobody leaves their table | Seasonal looks already in the catalog | Overlay |
| Multi-city program | The same setup in each city | One set, built once, run identically | Overlay and gallery, per city |
- A fixed AI booth set needs 8 by 8 feet of floor for the camera, the light and an 8 ft backdrop; the roaming format needs no floor space at all, because attendants carry the camera through the room.
- Venue Wi-Fi is enough for a conference, a launch or a party; on trade show and conference floors, where thousands of phones saturate the air, CEG Interactive brings a hardline.
- A conference or a holiday party runs on catalog looks; a brand activation usually wants one custom look, which is the 5 to 7 business day item in the schedule, and a multi-city program builds its look set once and runs it the same way in every city.
AI VIDEO FROM EVERY LOOK
A look can leave the booth as a still or as a five to ten second clip. The guest poses once, the portrait becomes the first frame of a short video with a moving virtual camera — an orbit, a dolly zoom, the light-painting trails beside this paragraph — and it lands in the same gallery about one to two minutes after the shutter.
Motion is its own product. See our AI video booths for the scene list, the capture times and what a clip costs.
“The filters, creative ideas, and recommendations they offer are always fun. Most importantly, our clients are happy with the final results.”
— Lupita P., Terramar, on a roaming AI booth in Orlando
AI BOOTH CLIENTS AND REVIEWS
The crews who run these stations also run CEG Interactive’s booths at conferences and incentive programs for Access, Cohera, Capital One and 3M. CEG Interactive carries $2M / $4M general liability, workers’ compensation and commercial auto insurance, and custom certificates of insurance and additional-insured endorsements for your venue are routine.
... The team went ABOVE AND BEYOND to ensure our end client was happy. They were accommodating with last minute changes. ...
CEG is always an amazing partner — already looking forward to the next event.
Always professional, accommodating and easy to work with. Thanks team CEG for another successful event!
Peyton jumped in to find a better solution for our group and created the AR options.
Peyton and the product were both amazing — everyone at our event loved it, kids to adults.
Seamless booking and excellent in-person service for our 300-person org-wide event.
We hired CEG for Burlington's Leadership Summit — our Senior Vice Presidents and executives joined in.
You're always on time, prepared for anything and so creative. We love working with you!
Working with CEG was a breeze — they handled the entire setup without pulling our team away.
To say the photo op was a hit is the understatement of the century. People loved it!
Communicative, punctual, and professional — they take pride in their work.
CEG is always a dream to work with — professional, timely, and warm.
Everything was great and the client really loved the experience.
Everyone had a great time — the onsite staff was great!
Grant was great and did a super job! Thank you!
An instant "wow" factor from the moment guests walked in. Highly recommend!
AI BOOTH PRICING
| 2026–2027 Rates: 3-Hour Base | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Line | Rate | What it covers | |
| Generative AI booth, up to 3 hours | $5,000 | Crew, studio lighting, unlimited sessions, the look menu, your overlay, a sharing station, the gallery, delivery and setup. | CHECK DATE |
| Extra hours | +$500 | Per hour, or $500 per half hour when extended the night of the event. | CHECK DATE |
- A generative AI booth from CEG Interactive costs $5,000 for up to three hours, nationwide, with the crew, the lighting, unlimited sessions and the branded gallery inside the rate.
- Instant prints are a +$1,000 upgrade on an AI booth, and the price includes a second sharing station so the print queue does not slow the share queue.
- Hours past the three-hour base are $500 each; prints at +$1,000, a printed step-and-repeat from +$500 for an 8 by 8 ft wall, extra sharing stations and a custom look are the upgrades below.
Any event with printing needs an attendant on the printer, and added hosts for line management are quoted per event. On sales tax: an event with a physical takeaway such as a print is taxable, while photography with digital sharing only is not, subject to state exemptions. Longer programs, full days and multi-city tours are quoted per event.
What Every AI Booth Includes
- 1 camera with studio lighting and a standard 8 ft backdrop
- Up to 3 hours of service
- 1 host for the rental window, coaching poses and running the sharing station
- Unlimited sessions during the rental window
- A menu of looks from the 138-look catalog, chosen by you
- 1 event branding overlay on every image
- 1 touchscreen sharing station with text, email and QR delivery
- Opt-in email and survey capture, with the contact list exportable afterwards
- 1 online gallery for the event
- Delivery, setup, breakdown and pickup
- Backup gear on site at every event
Prints, a custom look, a printed backdrop and battery power are not in the base rate. The signed agreement lists exactly what your event includes, and it rules over this page.
AI BOOTH UPGRADES
The AI look leaves the room as a 4 × 6 print with your event name along the bottom edge. The price bundles a second sharing station so the print queue does not slow the share queue, and the event needs an attendant on the printer. A quarter of our AI bookings add it.
ASK ABOUT THIS+$1,000
One station comes with the booth. For a reception where groups of four arrive together, each added station lets another group text, email or scan its portrait while the next guest is already at the mark.
ASK ABOUT THIS+$500 each
A standard 8 ft backdrop is in the rate. A printed step-and-repeat puts your brand behind the guest in the room as well as in the image, which matters when the room is being photographed too. Here, a Leading Hotels of the World wall with a red carpet in front of it.
ASK ABOUT THIS+$500
Your campaign colors, type and key art built into the image itself, down to the wardrobe and the hair, instead of laid over it as a frame. Approved on a range of faces before the event; allow 5 to 7 business days.
ASK ABOUT THISQuoted
AI BOOTHS NATIONWIDE
Nationwide, and identical in every city.
Where to rent one: CEG Interactive runs this booth nationwide, in dozens of major metro areas including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas–Fort Worth, Houston and Atlanta, with no travel cost in most markets. Remote locations may carry a delivery fee. Lead time is a few days at minimum, and a few weeks or months is better when a custom look or brand approvals are involved.
For a multi-city program the look set, the overlay and the sharing flow are built once on our own cloud-based photo booth platform and run identically in every city, so week one and week six belong to the same campaign. CEG Interactive’s multi-city clients include Leading Hotels of the World, Cartessa, New York Life, Live Nation and Salesforce.
PAIRS WELL WITH
The three services booked most often alongside an AI booth in our own orders since 2023:
A camera orbits guests on a platform and films them in slow motion. Our 360 booths start at $3,000 and run beside an AI set on the same floor.
Our LED floors run $25 per sq ft including delivery and the light tech, with a $5,000 order minimum. A 12 × 12 ft floor is $3,600, so pairing it with a booth is how a small floor reaches the minimum.
Our roaming booths reach the guests who never cross the room, from $2,000, with battery power included.
ALSO RECOMMENDED
The same capture, printed as a double-sided 2.5 by 3.5 inch card with a name, a number and your sponsor on the back. See our trading card station.
A robot arm draws each guest in pen while the line watches, about a minute per drawing, per robot. See our Sketch Bot rentals.
The red-carpet robot shot — push in, sweep around, pull out — with no arm in the room and your logo wall still readable when the camera settles. See the AI Glambot.
AI Booth Questions, Answered
How much does an AI booth cost to rent?
A generative AI booth from CEG Interactive costs $5,000 for up to three hours, nationwide. Extra hours are $500 each, instant prints add $1,000, and a custom look is quoted separately.
How long does each guest take?
CEG Interactive plans on about one session per minute, depending on crowd flow. The photograph takes seconds and the portrait appears 30 to 60 seconds later, so a three-hour rental can reach roughly 180 sessions.
Do guests get prints, or is it digital only?
Digital sharing by text, email or QR code is included on every CEG Interactive booth. On-site printing is a $1,000 upgrade that bundles a second sharing station, and any event with printing needs an attendant.
Can more than one guest be in the same AI portrait?
Yes, up to about four people in one image. Likeness holds best with fewer faces, so groups larger than four are better photographed in pairs.
Can the images carry our logo, brand colors or a custom theme?
Yes. Every image carries the client’s overlay, and a look can be built from the client’s own artwork so the logo and colors sit inside the scene. Custom looks take 5 to 7 business days and are approved on a range of faces first.
How much space, power and internet does it need?
8 by 8 feet of floor, one standard 20A circuit and an internet connection. Venue Wi-Fi is fine for most events; on trade show and conference floors CEG Interactive brings a hardline. The roaming format needs no floor space.
Is this an app, or software we license?
Neither. It is a staffed rental: CEG Interactive brings the camera, the lighting, the crew and the gallery, and guests install nothing. For agencies and brand teams CEG also builds custom AI experiences to a brief, with no end-user software.
EVERY AI BOOTH LOOK IN THE CATALOG
All 138 looks, grouped into 11 families. Pick a family to see the individual looks inside it; 36 of them also ship as a motion clip.
A 1960s picnic at a music festival: a camper van with peace-sign decals, daisies and sunflowers, and friends laughing on woven blankets.
A 1960s festival field at golden hour: peace-sign flags, camper vans and tents behind two guests in fringe, florals and round sunglasses.
A 1970s disco stage: a mirror ball, blue spotlights and a sequin curtain behind a couple mid-dance on a lit floor.
A 1980s synthwave backdrop: a neon grid floor, palm silhouettes and a striped sun behind one guest in acid-wash jeans and a digital watch.
A 1970s dance floor: glowing colored floor tiles, a mirror ball and gold tinsel behind three guests in platform boots and flares.
A 1980s neon scene: a glowing magenta and cyan grid, palm trees against a striped sun, and three guests in period windbreakers and a power blazer.
A guest sits at an impossibly long outdoor tea table winding away through an overgrown garden: mismatched porcelain in wild patterns, teapots stacked at improbable angles, oversized roses in red and white climbing everywhere, a checkerboard path underfoot, and pocket watches hanging from the branches.
A guest is rendered as a high-fashion watercolor illustration on heavy cold-press paper: loose confident washes bleeding wet-into-wet for the garment, crisp confident ink linework defining the face and hands, and large areas of untouched white paper.
A guest is inside a vintage luxury railway carriage at night: polished mahogany panelling, brass fittings and reading lamps casting warm pools of light, deep green velvet seats, white linen and crystal on a small table.
A guest stands among rows of heavy grapevines at the last minutes of golden hour: amber and crimson autumn leaves, clusters of dark grapes, a rustic stone winery and rolling hills behind, and low sun flaring warm through the vine rows.
A guest stands on a snowy Victorian cobblestone street at dusk: wrought-iron gas lamps glowing warm through falling snow, shop windows stacked with garlands and warm light, evergreen wreaths on every door, and a horse-drawn carriage waiting in soft focus.
A guest in elegant evening dress in a candlelit hall, pale-eyed with delicate vampire fangs just showing.
A guest stands on wide white sand at sunset with a grand Victorian beachfront resort rising behind them: red conical turrets, white clapboard galleries, and warm windows glowing gold.
A guest stands in a warm darkened room filled with hundreds of small warm-white fairy lights strung in deep layers behind them, thrown far out of focus so they read as an enormous soft heart-shaped bokeh field.
A guest stands inside a grand ballroom deep beneath the ocean: marble columns and a sweeping staircase softened by coral growth and sea fans, a chandelier hung with glowing anemones, shafts of pale blue-green sunlight falling from far above through the water, and schools of small silver fish drifting through the hall.
A guest stands at the center of a championship celebration on the field: a dense storm of metallic gold and silver confetti pouring down through stadium floodlights, streamers arcing overhead, a packed roaring stadium in every direction, and a plain polished trophy lifted in their hands.
A guest stands on an endless glossy grid plane stretching to a flat horizon, where an enormous banded chrome-and-magenta sun sits half-set.
A guest stands in the center of an enormous open book, its parchment pages curving up and away like walls on either side, covered in delicate ink illustrations and marginalia that seem to lift slightly off the paper.
A guest floats at the center of a vast cosmic expanse: swirling violet, magenta, and deep blue nebula clouds, a field of countless stars, drifting glowing particles, and a great luminous ringed planet low behind them.
A guest strides out of a dark stadium tunnel into blazing daylight, silhouetted for an instant against the opening before the light catches them.
A guest stands in an English garden at soft morning light in full spring bloom: banks of pale tulips, ranunculus, and cherry-blossom branches in butter yellow, blush, lilac, and cream, a weathered stone wall behind, dew catching the light on every petal, and a soft hazy sun low through the trees.
A guest in elegant evening dress in a candlelit hall, pale-eyed with delicate vampire fangs just showing.
A guest stands at the center of a dark chamber where sound has become visible: enormous concentric rings and rippling waveforms of warm amber and deep violet light radiate outward from them through the air, layered like ripples on water frozen mid-expansion.
A guest stands at the center of a giant glass snow globe, seen from just outside the curved glass: a miniature snow-covered village with warm glowing windows and a tiny church spire circles their feet, and a dense blizzard of oversized glitter-snow swirls and tumbles through the water around them.
































