With VR, Artists Will Transform Your World
Imagine a gallery where you can step into a painting, fly through the ceiling to the heaven\u2019s above, or learn a dance from a virtual flamingo. It\u2019s 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\u2019s office in downtown Portland, the artist Kristin Lucas was dreaming of flamingos.
\u201cI\u2019m interested in making an augmented reality experience for the HoloLens,\u201d she said, referencing Microsoft\u2019s new augmented reality glasses that make it look like the digital object is floating in the room in front of you. \u201cIn which they receive a dance lesson, and they\u2019re doing a multi-species dance with a flamingo.\u201d
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