The future is virtual
The acceleration of technology and the solitary nature of VR are a problem, but the rewards are great
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Author: evangelia baka
Meet the robotic museum guide that will turn art into sound for the visually impaired
The Smithsonian American Art Museum has come up with an amazing new use for SoftBank’s beloved Pepper. Some art institutions get so wrapped up in preserving the past that they fail to properly engage the future. The Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) is not one of those institutions. Fresh off unveiling a virtual reality Burning Man installation this past August, SAAM turned one of its robotic tour guides, Pepper, into a multimedia installation that transformed paintings into ambient synthesizer music. At an eventon Tech Family Day last month, Pepper was found engaging with visitors, capturing their emotions, and interpreting them with...
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Virtual reality tour brings ancient Jerusalem to life
Visitors will be able to ‘walk the streets’ of the city at the time of King Herod in the first century BCE
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The Museums of Instagram
Candytopia, the pop-up exhibit with locations in Manhattan and San Francisco, shares some characteristics with Disneyland—a costumed guide, manufactured fantasy landscapes, giddy kids—but there are no rides. In Candytopia, there’s very little to do but pose, and that’s what everyone’s doing. The installation is organized around a series of rooms with different themes; you move through them lured by the promise of sweets in each one. There are intricate sculptures of animals and fantastic beasts, made from gummy bears and jelly beans and jawbreakers. There’s a ball pit full of fake marshmallows and a wax sculpture of Katy Perry. ...
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In real life and in virtual reality, The Better World Museum works to live up to its name
Paige Dansinger, the founding director of Better World Museum in downtown Minneapolis, draws on “Tilt Brush,” a program on the Oculus Rift in the virtual reality studio on Tuesday, Sept. 11. The Better World Museum is open to the public, where viewers can use the virtual reality studio, a collaborative space that Dansinger says people from all over the world have used.
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