Virtual reality isn't just for gamers. Artists, exercise fiends and actors in a new theater form are experimenting now.
A still from artist Keith Tolch’s interactive, virtual reality artwork, “Glass Bottom Brain,” produced at Art Reality Studio.It’s a futuristic landscape, a maze of empty rooms with soaring ceilings and glowing, neon-lit floors, everything bathed in an ‘80s-era palette of screaming-pink, orange and lime green. Random objects — a deconstructed 1967 Mustang, glass cubes brimming with swirly paint markings, delicate pencil drawings of butterflies and roosters — float by.
“What happens when artists are given cutting-edge technology, no strings attached?,” says ARS co-founder Frank Masi. “We wanna see how far they’ll take it.” …Actors sheltering at home perform in live VR experiences, making case for new theater form A woman who looked to be nearly 15 feet tall commandeered our attention. She said we should all say hello to her new friend named “Rice Krispie Treat” and then she asked if we could do a group hug. If there was any doubt that this was not your standard video game character and was instead a creation being puppeteered by a very-real actor, it was about to become apparent., “so we may as well do it in here.
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