The purpose of this virtual reality project is to allow users to interact with art in a novel way, engaging casual art enthusiasts as well as fostering a new curiosity for classic artworks. This experience guides users through a museum and to step into the paintings’ worlds, walking through the landscape or scene and learning about certain highlighted features.
Our target product includes an art gallery experience with two paintings. The user can explore a small lobby and select which painting to explore. The user can also manipulate other pieces within the scenes including rotating, scaling, and grabbing. The two works on display are Campbell's Soup Cans and The Persistence of Memory.
The user can enter the paintings from the main lobby. When in a painting world, the user can summon the menu to return to the main lobby by pressing B.
One of the stretch goals that we mostly achieved was changing the texture of the user's hands according to the art style. The locomotion while using these hands is functional, but a little buggy.
There are many additions we'd love to add to our project! Aside from the possibility of adding more works of art from different styles, we'd like to add dynamic landscapes and more interactivity, such as the ability to paint your own strokes in the world.
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