VR Gaming for Time-Travel
November 25, 2017 7:53 AM Subscribe
This week in 2019, the Prado Museum in Madrid will turn 200. This VR reconstruction takes you back 140 years, to the room that still exists but is completely different. Gaming technology was used to allow anyone, anywhere to walk through a view assembled from a 19th-century glass plate negative. A different approach from the apps that other museums have been using for augmented reality.
Works great on my iPhone!
posted by oceanjesse at 10:50 AM on November 25, 2017
posted by oceanjesse at 10:50 AM on November 25, 2017
It's been on my mind for a while that as we do more surveillance as a society, the better and better we're going to be able to do this sort of virtual time travel.
Like, I bet we could put together a super detailed simulation of my local mall a couple of months in the past, assuming the data's still lying around from all the cameras for all the stores and shared areas.
There's a huge potential boon there to future archeologists, again, assuming data retention, and assuming we finally stop caring about any kind of privacy once and for all. 😉
Yes, I am keeping this idea in my back pocket in case I need to do a devil's advocate defence of a total surveillance state.
posted by threecheesetrees at 2:54 PM on November 25, 2017
Like, I bet we could put together a super detailed simulation of my local mall a couple of months in the past, assuming the data's still lying around from all the cameras for all the stores and shared areas.
There's a huge potential boon there to future archeologists, again, assuming data retention, and assuming we finally stop caring about any kind of privacy once and for all. 😉
Yes, I am keeping this idea in my back pocket in case I need to do a devil's advocate defence of a total surveillance state.
posted by threecheesetrees at 2:54 PM on November 25, 2017
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posted by Thorzdad at 10:05 AM on November 25, 2017