Lee, 1961

The motion capture lab at ACCAD was used to create a simulation of being inside of the Sistine Chapel. With a head mounted wireless device and photographs you can look anywhere inside of the space. You walk around and experience the sense of scale and wonder of the Sistine Chapel. I have been to Italy and visited the Sistine Chapel. While the ACCAD experiment is not the same because of some glitches with software, image quality and lighting, this could be fixed. The seamless viewing is still fantastic. But it’s only a simulation. Let’s move on to another level.

I need eyes to see inside of an existing, not virtual, museum anywhere in the world. But I don’t want a link to the museum’s database of pictures. There’s no scale! Let’s penetrate the museum’s walls so I can look at the art. I get tired of virtual reality. No more nonsense about looking at simulations through a monitor. Let me inside. I want to move my head, look at the ceiling or the floor as well. Then I decide how to navigate around the space and view those priceless treasures. Google are you listening?

Wireless VR project at the Advanced Computing Center for the Arts & Design