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The Dreams Of Dali Comes To Viveport

Inception, a leading provider of virtual reality (VR) entertainment content that brings immersive experience to life by working with the world’s favourite artists, museums, and content creators, have announced that new content is available within their Inception VR application. The new content comes in the form of the Dreams of Dalí.

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The Inception VR application – which is available on Viveport – offers users a chance to experience a range of different VR content all within one location. New content is added every week and partnerships with top publications ensure that uses are able to enjoy only the very best content all year around. Now with the addition of the Dreams of Dalí immersive experience. users can witness the artwork of a legend come to life like never before.

The Dreams of Dalí experience started life two years ago when the Salvador Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida, launched an exhibition called Disney and Dalí: Architects of the Imagination. As part of this Goodby Silverstein & Partners created the Dreams of Dali VR experience which focuses on the artist’s famous 1935 painting Archeological Reminiscence of Millet’s “Angelus”.

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Users are transports inside the famous painting where they will become fully immersed within the world of the surrealist master like never before. Able to venture into the bizarre towers, heading all the way to the top to see into the distance and discover numerous surprises. Across the whole landscape there are plenty of interesting and different things to uncover and witness all while questioning what it actually is. The experience released on Steam for HTC Vive and Oculus Rift earlier this year but now those looking to enjoy it along with other content can now do so via the Inception VR app.

You can see a new trailer for the Dreams of Dalí VR experience blow which features a piano cover of Where Is My Mind courtesy of Kwaidan Records which really helps bring the surrealist work to life even more than it already is within the virtual environment. The Dreams of Dalí VR experience is available within the Inception VR application on Viveport which is available to download for free now.

VRFocus will be sure to bring you all the latest on Inception and the Dreams of Dalí in the future so stay tuned for more.

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Dreams of Dali VR Art App Being Made Available Worldwide

Early last year the Salvador Dali Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida launched an exhibition that allowed visitors to use an Oculus Rift headset to be transported inside the painting and move around a virtual reality (VR) recreation and see the sculptures and vistas depicted from another perspective. Now The Salvador Dali Museum has teamed up with VR content platform Inception to allow art fans worldwide to try out the experience.

The Dali Museum and Inception are making the experience, titled Dreams of Dali, available for users of the Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, Samsung Gear VR, Google Daydream and Google Cardboard. The experience is focussed around Dali’s painting, Archeological Reminiscence of Millet’s “Angelus” and allows viewers to enter into the painting to explore the towers and explore the world created by the famous surrealist.

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“We hope that Salvador Dalí, known in his lifetime as what we now call an ‘earlier adopter’ of new technology, would applaud this homage to his 1935 painting,” said Kathy Greif, Chief Marketing Officer for The Dalí Museum. “It’s exciting to be part of the movement that is delivering digitally-based, immersive cultural experiences” said Greif. “Putting Dreams of Dalí onto the Inception app enables us to educate and inspire a much broader audience – even those who can’t travel to St. Pete – extending our reach beyond our walls.”

“Inception was the perfect fit for The Dalí’s Dreams of Dalí distribution, now joining our existing Dalí VR experiences created in partnership with the Dalí Theatre-Museum in Figueres, Spain,” said Benny Arbel, Inception CEO. “The Inception platform strives to give users a more immersive experience, with our range of interactive VR art pieces and exhibitions such as Daydreaming with Stanley Kubrick and Ron Arad’s Curtain Call, as well our Boiler Room x Google Pixel experience created exclusively for the Google Daydream.”

VRFocus will bring you further news on VR in art as it becomes available.