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Paul Allen’s legacy includes a virtual reality “Holodome”
The centerpiece of the dome movement is Holodome, which was a pet project of the late Microsoft co-founder.
- At TED, Vulcan debuted 2 new experiences: one is a live-action film that takes you to the top of Mount Everest and another takes you inside the Impressionist works of Claude Monet as you step inside the artist's world.
- The video is not just all around you, but also above you and at your feet.
My thought bubble: Both new exhibits do exactly what good VR should — that is, convincingly take you to a place you couldn't go, somewhere either inaccessible, like Everest, or unreal, as with Monet.
Details: The centerpiece of the technology is 4 very-high-resolution projectors.
- There are 2 Holodomes already in the wild, one that was used for consumers at the Museum of Popular Culture (MoPop) in Seattle and another in Venice, California, where Vulcan has been showing the technology to creators.
- At MoPop, 40,000 consumers have been through the Holodome since last May.
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