Museum of Other Realities – Page 3 – Augmented & Virtual Reality Confabulation

After more than two years of development the Museum of Other Realities is out of early access and opening its virtual doors to the public with works from nearly two dozen groundbreaking VR-based artists.

The MOR is an only-possible-in-VR showcase of artwork spanning some of the most experienced artists in the world building across a wide range of tools like Quill, Medium, and Tilt Brush. The platform includes both solitary exploration for a serene and contemplative experience as well as social support to explore the museum with friends or strangers.

The social support is built with the Normcore mutliplayer software development kit from the developer of Half and Half and there are protection tools in place to facilitate comfortable experiences. The MOR saves every last bit of PC performance for the artworks so it features geometrically simple avatars that can be customized inside the museum.

Artists exhibiting their work in the launch release are groundbreaking creators, many of whom pioneered their own workflows or tools to produce their work, including:

Rosie summers
Liz Edwards
Matt Schaefer
Kevin Mack
Nick Ladd
Danny Bittman
Vladimir Ilic
Sutu
Issac Cohen (@cabbibo)
Em Halberstadt
Mike Murdock
Bastiaan Hooimeijer (@_naam)
Romain Revert
Sabby Lighf
John Orion Young (JOY)
Durk van der Meer
Scott Bennett (@scobot)
Sean Tann
Anand Duncan
Micah Milner (Micah404)

CEO and museum founder Robin Stethem took me on a tour of the rebuilt space recently and I found it astonishing how much it changed since the early days. I’ve never found myself saying “wow” as many times as I did looking through each room, listening to the subtle echo of my voice seeming to bounce off the museum’s walls, flying, resizing myself with a drink like Alice In Wonderland, and gasping at the scale of the this impossible place and the thoughtful, interactive, and responsive works on display.

The MOR is around $20 and available on Steam, Viveport and seeking release on the Oculus Store for Rift. They’re planning regular updates for the gallery as well as hosting events in the museum.

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The Museum Of Other Realities Curates VR Art With Early Access Release

The Museum of Other Realities is available now in early access for $20.

The curated art museum offers visitors access to a “cross section of the free-ranging experimentation present in the relatively new medium of virtual reality art.” The initial launch includes the work of 12 different artists with numerous updates planned in the coming months.

“Artists with featured work in the Museum are paid and promoted,” the MOR’s description on Steam reads. “Hang out with friends and enjoy a collective experience with new people. We hold regular events, celebrating and fostering a community around this new medium.”

VR artists and creators have been gathering in the museum regularly for many months in what are essentially simulated art gallery openings. If its early access release builds on this community, the MOR can become a new kind of gathering place and community center that promotes a wide range of artists spread across the globe and brought together in VR. You can, of course, check out the art alone as well but there’s a lot of potential in the social experience of sharing the “impossible, interactive, mind-blowing art is a lot more fun with a couple friends,” MOR developer Colin Northway, best known for his work on Fantastic Contraption, wrote in an email to us about the software.

I’ve visited the museum in Valve Index, as well as in other VR headsets, and I’d highly recommend checking it out. If you are interested at all in VR art and the artists making it, buying the MOR and supporting them in early access seems to be one of the best options right now for seeing some fantastic and surprising VR art and supporting the further development of such creations.

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