Wednesday, March 06, 2019
experience t-rex in virtual reality at the american museum of natural history
www.designboom.com: everyone knows the mega-predator, tyrannosaurus rex, but do you know how they lived? or that t. rex hatchlings were fluffy, and more like turkeys than the killing machines they grew up to be? or that they had the rare ability to pulverize and digest bones?
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I love seeing how education is beginning to use virtual reality to their advantage. The video before this article looked really cool and I’d be so down to try and put all the bones of a T-Rex skeleton in the right place. Using a device made by the entertainment industry to create an immersive, fun, and educational experience within a Museum is an awesome idea and it’s great that this game or experience will be open for people to try in a couple of days. The idea that this is a new way for people to engage with history - especially the dinosaurs - is such a smart idea! HTC Vice Arts was a collaborator on this project. The article talks about through this virtual reality experience, we’re able to preserve cultural heritage for the world with digital innovation in arts. Also in virtual reality the world is what you make it. Nothing is too big or too small and this for of technologies will let people who are coming to this museum experience the most fantastic and inaccessible realms of nature.
This seems really cool, and like something I’d definitely want to try out… in theory. In practice I don’t think I’d want to put a VR headset that has been worn by who knows how many museum goers on. That feels gross at best given all the sweat, and likely unsanitary. That being said, the promo videos make it seems like it could be a really interesting experience. I wonder if they will be releasing it in a way that people who have VR systems of their own/ have a cardboard VR headset attachment for their smartphone can try it. I’d be far more interested in trying something like this in an environment where I can trust the equipment. If this does ever get released, I might try to convince my brother to get it since he has a VR system and then I could check it out next time I visit him. I also think that if multiple museums start getting these systems it could be a cool way for people at one museum to get a taste of what is available at another museum.
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