The Louvre Museum and HTC VIVE Arts present Leonardo da Vinci’s famous Mona Lisa to art lovers with a virtual reality experience. The first virtual event in the history of the museum, Mona Lisa: Beyond the Glass, details of the famous oil painting and how the work was restored can be seen closely.
With the Louvre Museum, HTC VIVE Arts opens the first virtual reality experience in museum history, Mona Lisa: Beyond Glass, to visit tomorrow. The Louvre exhibition, a brand new Mona Lisa experience that encompasses the user, gives art lovers the opportunity to see Leonardo da Vinci’s most famous masterpiece in a way never seen before. This experience will also be available to all art lovers anywhere in the world through VIVEPORT.
Mona Lisa: Beyond the Glass, visitors also get the chance to see Vinci’s famous work from a new perspective and encounter it on a personal level in a virtual reality environment. Thanks to this innovative and interactive experience with Mona Lisa, the Louvre Museum introduces da Vinci’s iconic masterpiece to art lovers all over the world using an unprecedented method.
At the start of the seven-minute immersive experience, users find themselves in the Salle des États in Louvre, where the Mona Lisa is always on display via VIVE’s latest VR headpiece VIVE Cosmos. At first, the user lags behind the crowd in front of the table. When the crowd leaves in front of the painting, the viewer is brought close to the painting enough to face the work without the protective glass and frame between them. Left alone with the masterpiece of Da Vinci, the audience can see the most eye-catching details of this famous oil painting, including the texture of the wooden panel seen from the paint layer, and how the artifact was restored.
Classic concepts excluded pure
The experience of virtual reality combines moving image, sound and interactive design to bring visitors to the world of da Vinci in full depth, as well as an approach to what the infrared scanning of iconic artwork can say about the model. This unique experience, which takes the audience on a journey through time, gives an idea of how the work of art has actually been created and how it has changed over 500 years. On the voice narrative side, where experience is supported by the story, some legendary concepts about Mona Lisa are eliminated by giving more details about her identity and clothing.
Vinci’s Sfumato Technique will be shown
Mona Lisa: Beyond Glass also presents the audience with da Vinci’s Sfumato technique, which means using very finely applied paint layers that make the transition from shade to light almost imperceptible. The audience is able to experience the Sfumato effect, which is shown in experience and presented with a fine smoke that fills the space and softens the light.
The VR experience also reveals details hidden by the original natural landscape, painted by da Vinci, behind the model. Mona Lisa: Beyond the Glass is for the audience in order to increase the engagement of the museum with its collections; He emphasizes that it is more important to create new methods for institutions in order to adopt innovation as a key element of exhibition programs to reach audiences both inside and outside the museum.
HTC’s unlimited VR membership service is available from VIVEPORT Infinity, along with other major VR platforms including iOS and mobile VR on Android, the extended home version version of the experience, designed for audiences around the world. This VR experience, in addition to the content that reveals the experience inside the museum, gives the audience the opportunity to experience what it is like to enter the Louvre through the iconic glass pyramid before reaching the Grande Galerie, and to see the entire collection of da Vinci exhibited in the Louvre in virtual reality. It offers. This virtual reality experience was realized in partnership with Louvre, HTC and the virtual reality production company Emissive.
Digital Creativity
Dominique de Font-Réaulx, Director of Mediation and Cultural Programming at the Louvre Museum, said of the experience: “It is at the heart of Louvre’s mission to go to society in new ways to carefully study and appreciate the works of art in our collection. The Louvre Museum is pleased to present a virtual reality experience in collaboration with HTC VIVE Arts for the first time at the Leonardo da Vinci exhibition. The carefully developed Mona Lisa’s virtual reality experience has allowed us to combine our knowledge and expertise at Louvre with digital creativity that will serve the interests of all our visitors. ”
A VEHICLE EXCEEDING LIMITS
Chang As VIVE Arts, we are proud to have collaborated with Louvre beyond the Louvre’s first VR exhibition, Mona Lisa: Beyond Glass, Chang said Victoria Chang, HTC VIVE Arts Director. Da Vinci was a highly creative thinker who managed to innovate in the disciplines of art and technology.
Virtual reality is a tool that we can say that today’s creative practitioners are naturally interdisciplinary, enabling them to cross the boundaries between areas that were once more disconnected and considered separate. By using virtual reality to tell the story of this world-renowned artwork and providing them with a very close and surrounding experience, we hope that the Louvre visitors will have an enriched experience. On the other hand, we are honored to support the mission of bringing Louvre’s collection to art lovers from all over the world, and we hope that more people will be able to interact with the Louvre through this new experience.”
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