The Virtual (Reality) Museum of Immersive Experiences

This paper outlines an investigation and describes strategies to capture, simulate and reproduce experiences originally designed for large-scale immersive architectures within Virtual Reality. Applications and experiences created for a specific immersive platform depend on the complex and costly technical infrastructure they were originally designed for. Descriptions and video documentation only go so far in illustrating an immersive experience. The embodied aspect, the emotional engagement and the dimensional extend, central to immersion, is mostly lost in translation. This project offers a prototypical implementation of a large-scale virtual exhibition, incorporating various immersive architectures and applications situated within a fictional 3D scene. The motivation behind this project is to provide a framework to showcase and for the conservation of immersive experiences and systems outside specialised facilities and labs. Furthermore, it presents a test-bed and space for experimentation to design and evaluate immersive experiences and architecture before they are developed at full scale.

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Volker Kuchelmeister

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Publication date: July 2018

Publication date (Print): July 2018

Pages: 203-210

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[0001]University of New South Wales Sydney, Art and Design

Greens Road, Paddington, NSW, 2021

Australia

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/EVA2018.39

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Conference name: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts

Conference acronym: EVA

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Conference location: London, UK

Conference date: 9 - 13 July 2018

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts

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[1] 100 Masterpieces of the Collection of the Vitra Design Museum. Interactive CD-ROM 1996 http://kuchelmeister.net/portfolio/vitra/

[2] J. Baudrillard 1981 Simulacra and Simulation University of Michigan Press 167

[3] W. Benjamin 1936 The Work of Art In The Age of Mechanical Reproduction Illuminations H. Arendt New York Schocken 217 251

[4] M. Economou 2008 A World of Interactive Exhibits F. Marty PaulJones Katherine Burton (eds.) Museum Informatics. People, Information, and Technology in Museums New York, NY Routledge 137 156

[5] J. FalkL. Dierking 1992 The Museum Experience Washington Whalesback Books

[6] S. Kenderdine 2010) Immersive visualization architectures and situated embodiments of culture and heritage 14th International Conference Information Visualisation 2010 London

[7] V. KuchelmeisterJ. ShawD. Del FaveroM. McGinityA. Harjano 2009 Immersive Mixed Media Augmented Reality Applications and Technology IEEE PCM 2009 Bangkok

[8] V. Kuchelmeister 2013 Alberti’s Window v2.0. A Vision Machine for Expanded Spaces of Representation International Symposium of Electronic Art 2013 Sydney

[9] V. Kuchelmeister 2017 The Virtual (Reality) Museum of Immersive Experiences. Website & video documentation http://kuchelmeister.net/portfolio/virtual-immersion/ (retrieved 26 March 2018 )

[10] L. Lippard 1997 Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972. UC Press

[11] M. McGinityJ. ShawJ. V. KuchelmeisterA. HardjonoD. Del Favero 2007 AVIE: A Versatile Multi-User Stereo 360 degree Interactive VR Theatre ACM Siggraph 2007 San Diego

[12] C. PanciroliV. RussoA. Macauda 2007 When Technology Meets Art: Museum Paths between Real and Virtual Proceedings 2007

[13] W. Schweibenz 2013 Museum Exhibitions – The Real and the Virtual Ones: An Account of a Complex Relation Uncommon Culture, [S.l.] May 2013 ISSN 2083-0599 38 52

[14] J. Shaw 1991 Virtual Museum http://www.jeffreyshawcompendium.com/portfolio/virtual-museum/ (retrieved 26 March 2018 )

[15] Steam VR museum applications http://store.steampowered.com/search/?term=museum+vr (retrieved 26 March 2018 )

[16] C. ZizzaA. StarrD. HudsonS. NuguriP. CalyamZ. He 2017 Towards a Social Virtual Reality Learning Environment in High Fidelity IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference 2018 Las Vegas

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