VR is opening up new ways to experience art
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VR is opening up new ways to experience art
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#2On the subject, I just received an oculus quest, and I'm pretty blown away by it. I know that it will never compete with a PC-tethered device on image quality, but the quality is good enough and they have nailed almost every inconvenience that would stop the layperson from using VR regularly. It's lightweight, it's wireless, you don't need a dedicated room, the UX is seamless; you can just pick it up and start playing a game within 10 seconds. I've been on the sidelines of VR waiting for the inflection point where the technology is ready to go mainstream, and if this device isn't it, it's close.
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#3Also new ways to create art. Tilt Brush is really cool and offers some great creation tools, but I love Medium even more.
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#4I am looking forward to the day that we can walk through a computer-generated infinite gallery in virtual reality, looking at paintings and sculptures entirely generated by machine learning algorithms. Humans are going to have to catch up!
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#5Reminds me of Giphy's Museum of GIF Art // many of Planeta.cc's works
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#6I am looking forward to the day that we can walk through a computer-generated infinite gallery in virtual reality, looking at paintings and sculptures entirely generated by machine learning algorithms. Humans are going to have to catch up!
I tend to disagree, if it's computer generated it is not art in the general sense. Art is the expression and application of human creative skill and imagination and AI doesn't have any creativity nor imagination, nor does it have any context within the current culture.
However, art can exist within this context if humans are involved somehow or have some input, and I don't mean just the coder's input.
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#7vr IS art.
just because someone identifies as an "artist" and makes vr doesn't mean they are making "vr art" and a graphics programmer is not making art. human creative expression is art whether made by an "artist" or programmer.
now for the smarter humans/bots to tell us how it really is. thank you.
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#8I wonder if people’s perception of 'modern' paintings will change if they view them through VR.
Many modern paintings are massive in scale (bigger than my bedroom in some cases) and/or have many thick, voluminous layers of paint. Jackson Pollock is a good example. Those paintings look plain and childish when viewed on a tiny screen that fits in your pocket, as you don’t feel their scale, you don’t sense the depth of the paint and its texture, and maybe, you are also not in a suitable environment to view the arts. (IIRC some Mark Rothko paintings are displayed in dedicated rooms with dim light, as desired by the artist.)
But if you view those arts through VR, you can get a lossless, holistic view of the artwork. It can even be better than viewing in person as there is no crowd standing in front taking photos...
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#9On the subject, I just received an oculus quest, and I'm pretty blown away by it. I know that it will never compete with a PC-tethered device on image quality, but the quality is good enough and they have nailed almost every inconvenience that would stop the layperson from using VR regularly. It's lightweight, it's wireless, you don't need a dedicated room, the UX is seamless; you can just pick it up and start playin…
I love not being tethered. Beat saber on the Quest is, dare I say, a better experience than on the Rift!
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#10I am looking forward to the day that we can walk through a computer-generated infinite gallery in virtual reality, looking at paintings and sculptures entirely generated by machine learning algorithms. Humans are going to have to catch up!
I tend to disagree, if it's computer generated it is not art in the general sense. Art is the expression and application of human creative skill and imagination and AI doesn't have any creativity nor imagination, nor does it have any context within the current culture. However, art can exist within this context if humans are involved somehow or have some input, and I don't mean just the coder's input.
> However, art can exist within this context if humans are involved somehow or have some input, and I don't mean just the coder's input.
How can you draw that line? If a coder is working on a generative art project, writes an algorithm, runs it, likes the result, is that not art?
Is an iterative process required where the coder throws away the first results and revises their system until they personally feel it's been sufficiently arted?