VR Museum

Traditionally, art appreciation has been exclusive and often expensive. It requires some planning and organizational effort and often involves travel. The same can be said about visiting a major natural history or science museum. Afterward, museum-goers would often encounter long queues, crowded rooms, and unsympathetic guides. Too often, they may have just a few seconds per exhibit and even fail to see what they’d anticipated most. Besides these difficulties for the public, this model actually contradicts the museums’ aim to disseminate knowledge and art to as many people as possible

Virtual Reality can both alleviate these problems and take the museums’ mission to a new level. The medium is praised for its ability to recreate spaces, remote destinations, or places that no longer exist, and to transport viewers there just by strapping on a VR headset. This way, even people with mobility issues can nowadays access the world’s best collections without leaving home
Many museums use VR technologies to create virtual tours and programs for sharing their collections worldwide. Best VR museum tours can provide the experience of self-guided exploration or a private viewing, standing in front of an exhibit as long as one pleases, without rope barriers and glass walls. Access to art and knowledge becomes both immediate and more affordable regardless of the viewer’s background and location
VR technology not only enables people to experience a certain exhibit or tour virtually but makes it possible to create an entire new museum online

Location-based Museum Virtual Reality Experiences

Leading museums are leveraging Virtual Reality on premises to help visitors better understand their collections. These VR exhibits are intended not to substitute existing ones, in a way, but to enhance, complement, or simply promote what is already there. The historical VR project blends artefacts scanned at the museum with digital panoramas to give visitors the feeling of walking in the town centuries ago or witnessing the flooding of an ancient mine after an explosion
VR promotes scientific knowledge by combining emotion with discovery. There are five VR stations equipped with the newest VR systems to support contemplative, interactive, seated, standing, or moving immersive VR experiences. Five participants can have the sessions simultaneously, viewing various life-forms up close and to scale and exploring the links between them. Their companions can see on a video screen what they are seeing

Virtual Reality Art

Artists themselves have been experimenting with VR and creating pioneering new works. VR allows them to design original and often fantastic environments and immensely artistic simulations for multisensory virtual immersion experiences. Moreover, VR’s neural and muscular interface allows viewers to become active participants rather than mere consumers
Technology is evolving to support them. For example, the already mentioned HTC Vive Arts is a multimillion-dollar initiative aiming to transform the way we create and engage with art. Since its launch in November 2017, it has been instrumental in the development of many artists’ and cultural institutes’ works

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