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I love art galleries. I especially love the famous ones, like the National Gallery in London. The downside is that you can spend an entire day in there and only see a quarter of their offerings.
Here at UB Looking At The Future we have come up with an interactive solution... to bring the famous
galleries and museums of the world to you.
Our specially trained film crews have been through all of the famous destinations, rendering high quality, realistic 3D versions of what you want to see.
The experience is delivered via state of the art VR equipment. Of course, as with any gallery you can't touch the exhibits but you can get a pretty good look at the most famous paintings, sculptures and relics on Earth.
You can walk around them, zoom in on them or just sit and stare at the Mona Lisa for hour upon hour upon hour, if you want. Soundtracks and smells are provided, so you get the garlic-laden waft of the usher at the Louvre, as he passes by where you are "standing".
No more daylong queues, to see Michelangelo's David, at the Uffizi, just breeze straight in.
Part of the proceeds are paid in royalties to the holders of the original exhibits, to ensure the world's greatest art treasures are maintained.
VR Bird
http://www.mygamero...school-edition.html
[Shz, Oct 31 2005]
VR tour of the Louvre
http://www.louvre.o...R/anglais/index.htm
Somewhat baked except for the smell part. [Adze, Nov 01 2005]
Simultaneous Views
halfbakery
Nature as art [M Carter, Mar 27 2008]
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I really don't like royalties being due to the owners of paintings. These things are *way* past copyright - why should some gallery/rich collector get to keep collecting on an image that is centuries old? |
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But some other form of payment, sounds fine. |
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Well, they may, or may not, have purchased it at great expense to provide access to it, to the public. There should logically be some sort of ROI for the purchaser, I imagine? |
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Maybe there's a flaw in my logic. In any case, the provider of this service would have to pay a fee to the gallery holding it, as they would not allow the image to be distributed, otherwise. |
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Someone has to look after them, or they end up like the statues at Bamiyan. |
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Reminds me of Virtual Reality Bird, which is of a natural history museum. <link> |
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I like the idea but you are effectively looking at a photo of the paintings. You wouldnt get the texture of the paint and you certainly wouldnt get the atosphere. |
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Would be good to have a virtual pen to draw facial hair on the rembrants though. |
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Yes, a photo, but realistic 3D and available from anywhere in the world. I'm not talking about 80kb photos on the web. I'm talking about extremely high resolution 3D modelling, using top end processors and IMAX style cinematography. |
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I had to fly to England to see a room full of European Masters' works. It's a 21 hour flight from here. |
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//I had to fly to England to see a room full of European Masters' works//... and that was just us!:) |
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/I had to fly to England to see a room full of European Masters' works. It's a 21 hour flight from here./ |
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You really should have done a few other things while you were there. Make the trip worthwhile. |
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Oh, I did. I went back for a second look, before I left. |
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