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The virtual reality experience goes for about ten minutes and is comprised of four scenes built around the personalities of the drag personas.
The virtual reality work is presented with the VR headsets resting on white dressing tables. The installation includes prints of the model ‘textures’ that reveal something of the process behind the work.
The VR installation can be complemented by video content projected on adjacent walls and live sound by the Transylvanian Gypsy Kings, who also appear in the VR experience.
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The models were created using a technique called photogrammetry that uses the shifts between photographs to construct a 3D mesh model of the subject with a surface constructed from a patchwork of the photographs wrapped around it. The glitchy imperfect quality of the process was not erased in order to explore the qualities of the process. The models were then animated with minimalist choreography by inserting armature and placed in a 3D computer games environment that allowed the viewer to look round the virtual environment in real time.
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Source: Virtual Drag