Wednesday, April 22, 2015
OptiTrack Enables Immersive VR for Museum-Goers at New York’s New Museum
Below the Line: OptiTrack motion capture technology is being used by artist Daniel Steegmann Mangrané in collaboration with ScanLAB Projects to fully immerse viewers into “Phantom,” one of the first virtual reality installations utilizing Oculus Devkit2 to be presented at an art museum in New York City. The New Museum‘s 2015 Triennial exhibition, titled “Surround Audience,” features work from artists around the world, and “explores the impact of an increasingly connected world on personal identity and the role and evolution of art.”
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The OptiTrack Virtual Reality system seems like it could be the future of museum exhibits. Not only is virtual reality simply cool and immersive, but it is also holds limitless possibilities. Relating the virtual space that the visitor sees to the physical space around them seems like an amazing way to create immersion, because suddenly the viewer doesn’t have to remain stationary, but is rather given complete freedom to explore a world that they may have never been able to before. Sure we can watch videos and movies of places like the rainforest captured in this particular exhibit, but the freedom to traverse the space yourself is what makes this technology amazing. Better yet once a museum has this system installed they have the opportunity to constantly update and add new virtual exhibits for visitors to explore. With this technology there are no limitations we could recreate movie sets, fictional worlds, even recreate real locals that might be dangerous or difficult to visit. OptiTrack could very well be the future of immersive entertainment, applied with binaural audio the experience could be unlike anything else. My only concern with this technology is whether or not it can be used by multiple visitors at once without them crashing into one another. Of course there will be room for improvements but I truly believe this technology is a great leap forward. I hope I get a chance to see it when I get back to NYC.
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