Virtual Reality Showcase at the North Country Children’s Museum - Clarkson University News

Digital Artist Alex Lee volition bring his virtual world showcase entitled “Everything from Here to Infinity” to the North Country Children’s Museum connected Saturday, November 5th from 1:00pm-2:30pm.

Lee is Associate Professor of Digital Arts & Sciences astatine Clarkson University. For this project, helium utilized the information produced by the astir broad survey of the known universe, The Sloan Digital Sky Survey, visualized arsenic virtual abstract expressionist benignant brushwood strokes. Lee invites viewers to circuit the known beingness with a heightened consciousness of beingness wearing a virtual world headset. Headsets volition beryllium disposable for visitors ages 7 years and older. Younger children tin manipulate the virtual world acquisition with a joystick connected a ample screen.

Lee utilizes 3D animation, video crippled engines, virtual/augmented/immersive world platforms, instrumentality learning and the imaginable of simulation technologies to analyse method images from concepts wrong science, subject fiction, and physics. Museum visitors volition navigate the entirety of the cosmic representation successful VR starting from the Milky Way to the cosmic airy horizon, which is astir 13.8 cardinal airy years away, yet terminating with a obstruction comprised of an representation of the cosmic inheritance radiation.

Lee’s VR enactment creates an abstraction of clip and cognition utilizing simulation technologies to large effect. This VR acquisition plays with the possibilities recovered successful information practice and physics simulation to make a caller experience. Lee has exhibited his VR successful festivals successful North America, Europe and Asia and is present bringing this acquisition to visitors astatine the North Country Children’s Museum!

This drop-in household programme is included with rank and admission. No request to pre-register. For much information, sojourn the depository website astatine https://northcountrychildrensmuseum.org/