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Canon launches virtual reality dinosaur exhibit in Japan
Canon plans to give us all a taste of the future of museums with its new "Dinosaurs-Miracle of the Desert" exhibit in Chiba, Japan. Visitors will be allowed to don a pair of virtual reality glasses that will display nearly life-sized three-dimensional images of various dinosaurs right there on the museum floor.
Displaying over 260 dinosaur specimens, some of the virtual creatures in the exhibit will also move, adding to their realistic effect. If you plan to travel to Tokyo sometime soon, the exhibit will run from July 18 to August 1st, and you can find out more information here.
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By SteelFox at 10:45 AM ON 07/08/09
I hope the model in the picture isn't an example of the actual ones used in the exibit. I suspect that a paleotoligist would have some serious problems with that triceritops.
By Giggity at 10:55 AM ON 07/08/09
I agree with you there SteelFox.
It will also be funny to see people walking around trying to touch the dinos and then walking into each other.
Potentially cool though...and about time.
By Mr. Fusion at 12:28 PM ON 07/08/09
Seems like a cool idea, it'll definitely make changing installations easier - but what's with the corded viewer? It looks more like a Polaroid !
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By pineapple jo at 3:42 PM ON 07/08/09
Can't wait until they make pron this way...
By DinoKat at 9:40 PM ON 07/08/09
Bring it to the US soon please !!
By Giggity at 11:36 AM ON 07/09/09
lol Dino...but the US already has the pron that pineapple refers to! ;-)
By jdmimic at 11:32 PM ON 07/10/09
I'm a paleontologist and I think for a first-gen low res example, it's not too shabby. Let the tech mature a bit and have some good paleo-artists at it and this think would be a fantastic boon for museums. I can see a huge number of uses for it. Improve it a fair bit to include scenery and take a virtual walk-though of Machu Picchu or the Collesium reconstructed to look like it did new and that would be a serious crowd pleaser.
By Nadja Pearl at 2:14 PM ON 07/16/09
I agree with the paleontologist that once the technology has matured and they add the background and a virtual tour than even I would have a look, but just like all new technology I have no doubt it will be rough around the edges. I am a special effects artist and by todays standards it takes a lot to impress me!! Sort of like the evolution with 3D and 4D movies...
By David Merchant at 4:30 PM ON 07/16/09
Amen to what Najda and jdmimic say - to be able to do virtual walk arounds would be "a serious crowd pleaser." Though they should be able to do something similar in SecondLife. Not the same as going to a museum, looking at an actual dinosaur skeleton, donning on Canon virtual googles and seeing what the dino would look like if it is alive - that would be awesome.
By annsafron at 9:42 PM ON 07/23/09
Ahh, the Holodeck is coming closer to manifestation. For you youngsters, that's from Star Trek: The Next Generation.
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