Hieronymus Bosch’s “The Garden of Earthly Delights” already offers its own immersive, bizarre experience, with scenes of Eden and hell framing a hallucinatory garden.
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In Acts of Resistance, Artists and Scholars Digitally Reconstruct the Past
In the past year alone, members of ISIS have marred cultural treasures in Iraq and Syria, taking sledgehammers and drills to statues at the Mosul Museum and delivering numerous blows to the ancient site of Palmyra, including its 1,800-year-old Arch of Triumph.
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The Virtual-Reality Future Is Here
Many expect 2016 to be the year that virtual reality (VR) finally takes off.
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From the Virtual to the Satanic, a Former Pharmacy Hosts Alternatives to Miami’s Mega-Fairs
MIAMI BEACH — Escape the overwhelming and crowded main art fairs this year — without forgoing the art experience — in an unexpected place: the derelict shell of a pharmacy in North Beach.
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Mossy Virtual Reality Helmets Let You See the Forest as Animals Do
Compared to certain animals, humans have pretty limited vision.
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Before They Disappear: A Virtual Reality Requiem for the Last Four White Rhinos
When filmmakers Eline Jongsma and Kel O’Neill began researching the Northern white rhinoceros over a year ago, there were seven on the whole planet. Now there are only four.
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Virtually Visiting the Harlem Renaissance
When Harlem’s Renaissance Ballroom was demolished this year, the 1920s Jazz Age past of the neighborhood became a little harder to see.
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Van Gogh in Virtual Reality
Orbs of orange paint suggested the light of the lamps past midnight in Vincent van Gogh’s 1888 “Le Café de nuit” (The Night Café) and in a new virtual reality take on his painting of the Café de la Gare in Arles, France, they come to life with radiating colors.
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A Virtual Reality Museum for Stolen and Looted Art
The virtual reality technology of Oculus Rift is being used to collect the digital remains of lost art.
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Can Virtually Destroying the Environment Make You Care About It?
At Stanford University’s Virtual Human Interaction Lab (VHIL), virtual reality is being researched as a means to make everything from climate change to deforestation a personal, impactful experience.
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How Violence Has Become Shielded by Virtual Distance
BERKELEY, California — On BlueServo, webcams are streaming live webcams stationed at potential border-crossing hotspots on the line between Texas and Mexico. Anyone in the world can go to BlueServo and guard the border virtually, 365 days a year and 24 hours a day. If a viewer was to spot suspicious activity they can report it to the local authorities, all without leaving the comfort of their keyboard. In my mind, BlueServo connected immediately to the work of NYU professor Wafaa Bilal.
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The Benefit of Virtual Living? Reality Doesn’t Last
If a meteor destroyed all of Queens, we’d probably be pretty freaked out. But might a virtual dragon destroying a virtual city ultimately upset more people? In an article entitled “Cataclysm Coming…” author Tom Chatfield explores what the update means to the denizens of World of Warcraft (WoW), the popular multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG). To the inhabitants of an enormous virtual world, population 11.5 million, the coming update, called Cataclysm, will be a revolution. Sure, the game isn’t actually real, but aren’t there ways in which living virtually surpasses physical reality? To start off with, everything makes sense and nothing dies.
