With VR, Artists Will Transform Your World
Feb 24, 2017•7 min
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Episode description
Imagine a gallery where you can step into a painting, fly through the ceiling to the heaven’s above, or learn a dance from a virtual flamingo. It’s not a world far off. Virtual and augmented reality stand to transform the art world, and the tech incubator Oregon Story Board is on the front lines.
As a December snowstorm raged around OSB’s office in downtown Portland, the artist Kristin Lucas was dreaming of flamingos.
“I’m interested in making an augmented reality experience for the HoloLens,” she said, referencing Microsoft’s new augmented reality glasses that make it look like the digital object is floating in the room in front of you. “In which they receive a dance lesson, and they’re doing a multi-species dance with a flamingo.”
Read the full story: http://www.opb.org/radio/article/virtual-reality-artists-oregon-story-board
As a December snowstorm raged around OSB’s office in downtown Portland, the artist Kristin Lucas was dreaming of flamingos.
“I’m interested in making an augmented reality experience for the HoloLens,” she said, referencing Microsoft’s new augmented reality glasses that make it look like the digital object is floating in the room in front of you. “In which they receive a dance lesson, and they’re doing a multi-species dance with a flamingo.”
Read the full story: http://www.opb.org/radio/article/virtual-reality-artists-oregon-story-board
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