Enter The Tomb Of King Tut Through An Astonishing Virtual Reality Experience
For the London exhibition, Tutankhamun: Enter The Tomb, a brilliant virtual reality experience has been added for the first time. Los Angeles-based VR production company, CityLights have premiered this immersive virtual reality experience alongside the main exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery. Directed by Joel Newton, co-founder of CityLights, the VR experience includes a soundtrack from Rob Garza of Thievery Corporation who recreates the sounds and instruments of ancient Egypt and Hugh “Lord Grantham” Bonneville as narrator. ... So that would explain why City Lights is investing heavily to promote VR as artistic experience to see in a cinema setting rather than simply as a techie experience. Visitors to City Lights’ Enter the Tomb at Saatchi gallery are seated in one of the eighteen VR pods arranged in a theater-like setting.
For Tutankhamun: Enter The Tomb, the eight-minute virtual reality experience at the Saatchi gallery, visitors sit in a comfortable lounge chair, the Positron Voyager, that transports them down into King Tut’s tomb as Howard Carter would have encountered it in 1922.