Your body is driving a new wave of AR, VR experiences
Artists at Sundance are tapping into your own movements to make immersive experiences feel more natural.
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Author: evangelia baka
Virtual Reality Painting Expands the Boundaries of Art
VR is a growing platform for artists, thanks to several tools that have come online in the past few years. Imagine going to an art gallery, but instead of merely looking at art, you travel inside the painting and become part of what’s happening in the scene. Artists around the world are...
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Please, Touch The Art: VR Encourages Audience To Become The Exhibit
Nancy Baker Cahill, Wesley Allsbrook, Drue Kataoka and Jorge R. Gutierrez break down walls (and through glass ceilings) to take art into the next dimension. Virtual reality and art have been intermingled since its mainstream inception, with painting via Google’s Tilt Brush almost synonymous with the rollout of the technology for the mass market. But even since we first started seeing what the medium is capable of in 2015, the fine art world has not really taken it seriously. Last autumn, Jesse Damiani, Editor-at-Large for VRScout, and CEO of Galatea, sought to really change that perception with a massive art show called “Spatial Reality,”...
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Where next for virtual reality art?
The first consumer version of the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset – a display device for viewing and navigating computer-generated, or ‘virtual’, environments – was released in the spring of 2016. That summer, I had my first virtual reality (VR) experience. I knew someone who was exploring the use of the technology for surgical simulators: they showed me their project and then we played a game in which you run around an abandoned fort killing zombies with a bow and arrow. A few weeks later, at the ninth edition of the Berlin Biennale, I came across my first VR...
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Google Virtual Tour Preserves Collection destroyed in Brazil Museum Fire
In early September, a fire roared through the 200-year-old National Museum of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro, destroying up to 90 percent of its precious collections. The extent of the damages was “incalculable,” Brazil President Michel Temer stated on Twitter at the time. “Two hundred years of work, research and knowledge have been lost.” While it is true that little can be done to restore so many of the museum’s irreplaceable specimens and artifacts, a recently launched Google Arts & Culture project hopes to see the institution live on in the digital realm. As Kelly Richman-Abodou reports for My Modern Met, Street View...
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