Author: Efstratios Geronikolakis

By Erika Engel   Two new films premiering next month will give viewers a virtual reality experience at two historic sites in Craigleith.   There’s a new, fully-submerged and immersive way to tour the wreck of the Mary Ward at the bottom of Georgian Bay without getting wet. But you’ll still need goggles.   A new film commissioned by the Craigleith Heritage Depot, called Mary Ward, features virtual reality technology and footage shot on a 360 camera by a diver exploring the wreck to give audiences the closest thing to a first-hand experience they can get without a wetsuit.  ...

By Sarah Cascone As institutions in the Netherlands ramp up celebrations to mark the 350th anniversary of the death of Rembrandt van Rijn (1606–1669), the Mauritshuis in The Hague has released a new augmented reality app that lets viewers step inside one of the artist’s most famous works. The project, titled Rembrandt Reality and created by Dutch virtual reality start-up Capitola, allows viewers to enter The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp (1632), getting up close and personal with the doctor and the corpse of the recently executed criminal Aris Kindte. “Art and tech go really well together,” David...

By Jane L. Levere Walk through the doors of the Morgan Library & Museum in New York City these days and it’s possible to travel back more than 100 years. Visitors can walk up to the original front doors no longer easily visible from outside the museum on East 36th Street, view a hidden staircase in its book-lined library that ascends to its upper tiers, and even meet Belle da Costa Greene, who died in 1950, having been the longtime librarian of the museum’s collector, J. Pierpont Morgan, and the museum’s first director, appointed by Morgan’s son in 1924....

By Niall Patrick Walsh The Zaha Hadid Virtual Reality Group has concluded the design phase of Project Correl, a collaborative experiment to test the potential of virtual reality as a tool for design. The results of the experiment are currently on display in the University Contemporary Art Museum (MUAC) in Mexico City, where it forms part of Zaha Hadid Architects’ “Design As Second Nature” exhibition. Having launched at the end of 2018, Project Correl used VR headsets and apparatus to transport visitors to a virtual environment to collaborate with each other on an ever-evolving structure. The design was periodically...