Author: Efstratios Geronikolakis

A Natural History Museum VR tour with Sir David Attenborough

A Natural History Museum VR tour with Sir David Attenborough

Posted by | Mar 7, 2018 | , |

Sky has launched a new VR offering at the Natural History Museum, with its Hold the World experience giving visitors the chance to tour one of London’s most interesting museums with none other than Sir David Attenborough. The Blue Planet 2 star and all-around national treasure was filmed by over 100 cameras so he could be recreated as a 3D hologram for Hold the World, which will launch at the Natural History Museum this spring and represents a crossover of “interactive video game and TV documentary technology,” according to Sky. A blue whale, stegosaurus, trilobite, dragonfly, butterfly and pterosaur...

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Thresholds: A journey through space and time with the help of Virtual Reality

Posted by | Feb 28, 2018 | , |

In 1839, British scientist William Henry Fox Talbot presented his photographic prints to the public; in doing so, he created the world’s first major photography exhibition. Almost 180 years later, you can visit Talbot’s seminal exhibition for yourself with Thresholds, an extraordinary virtual reality artwork by Mat Collishaw. See, hear and feel the past as you take a multisensory journey back in time. Walk through a digitally reconstructed room and marvel at Talbot’s inventions—you will even feel the heat of a coal fire. Visit Thresholds and experience the dawn of photography like never before. The VR experience will be accompanied by Immersion, a free exhibition of objects that explore how scientists and artists have created incredible immersive experiences using photography, cinema and sound. This is of great importance to the ViMM project, because Virtual Reality is used in order to display the specific exhibition to the visitors. It is an interesting way of taking a journey back in time, as the full immersion that the Virtual Reality provides makes the visitors feel that they are really in the past. This, as a result, enhances the feeling of presence, which is an important element that has to do with the Thematic Area 4 of the ViMM project. This use of Virtual Reality makes the exhibition fun and interesting, increasing the number of people wanting to try it and also the...

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Masterworks: A Journey Through History with the help of Virtual Reality

Masterworks: A Journey Through History with the help of Virtual Reality

Posted by | Feb 26, 2018 | |

Thanks to the magic of presence, VR can collapse distances across time and space. You can hang out with friends and family from anywhere in the world with Facebook Spaces, or you can explore the world with Google Earth VR. And today, you can travel through history with MasterWorks—now available on both Rift and Gear VR. With MasterWorks: Journey Through History, you can visit:– Thailand’s ancient capital– A pre-Incan temple in the Andes– Colorado’s Native American cliff dwellings– Mount Rushmore National Memorial in South Dakota Your journey spans 3,000 years of human history across three continents—all without leaving your...

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Turning into a life-sized hologram with the help of Augmented Reality windows

Posted by | Feb 25, 2018 | |

Augmented reality doesn’t need to be confined to your phone screen or a pair of glasses — it can be life-sized. That’s what one company is proving with its massive augmented reality windows that let you view mixed reality without donning a headset or firing up a special app. Called DeepFrame, the massive curved displays create life-sized projections that appear as if they are overlaid onto the world around you. Created by Danish company RealFiction, the displays are surprisingly simple. Each one consists of a single piece of clear 64-inch glass that’s made with specially designed optics that are able to reflect an image that’s projected from a normal display, like a television or monitor. Besides being able to beam content from a TV, in the setup I demoed, RealFiction showed off how DeepFrame could be used as a futuristic telepresence tool. A camera setup in an adjoining room allowed me to chat with a life-sized projection of RealFiction CEO Clas Dyrholm. DeepFrame isn’t intended for your average consumer, though — at least, not yet. RealFiction is now focusing on selling DeepFrame to larger businesses. Dyrholm says the displays could be especially useful in retail stores and shopping malls, hotels, and car dealerships. And, for good reason. The displays don’t come cheap; the starting price for a single DeepFrame starts at around $50,000, according to the company. But Dyrholm...

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Explore the Archeological Reminiscence Millet’s Angelus painting in Virtual Reality

Posted by | Feb 24, 2018 | , |

The immersive nature of virtual reality (VR) has allowed artists and content creators to explore and develop brand new ways of learning and teaching ideas through interactive means. Now Goodby Silverstein & Partners has created the ‘Dreams of Dali’ VR experience which is opening this weekend and based on the famous Spanish artist Salvador Dalí. Dreams of Dali focuses on the artist’s famous 1935 painting Archeological Reminiscence of Millet’s “Angelus”, and is part of a new exhibition launching at the Salvador Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida. The experience is part for an overall exhibition called ‘Disney and Dalí: Architects of the Imagination.’ Using an Oculus Rift head-mounted display (HMD) will be transported inside the painting, being able to move around and explore the fully realised virtual world. Walk around the towering sculptures, go inside and view from the top the expansive vistas on offer. This could be helpful in the Thematic Area 4 of the ViMM project, because experiences like this are very interesting and innovative. With the help of Virtual Reality, the visitors of the museum can enter the painting and explore its contents in detail. Because of the full immersion that Virtual Reality provides, the visitors will feel like they are really inside the painting, enhancing the feeling of presence. This makes the exploration of an art museum more fun and interesting and as a result,...

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