Astrophysicist Natarajan and sculptor Gomley have collaborated on a project that gives viewers a realistic experience of the moon.
The New Leam Staff
On the 26th of July, 2019, humankind will complete fifty years of having walked on the moon for the first time. Time has passed but what has not changed is the fact that man’s expedition to the moon is still a rare affair and it has been 46 years since the last expedition. When as an ordinary citizen we look up at the night sky, the abundant horizon seems like an inaccessible realm. Though we cannot possibly walk the surface of the moon in reality and can only imagine what it must be like – a recent sculptural marvel by Anthony Gormley entitled ‘Lunatick’ is sure to amuse us. Four decades of superb mastership of sculpting combined with the time and labor of astrophysicist Priyamvada Natarajan have designed a latest project that allows viewers to travel from the Pacific Island to the Moon and beyond. This is an eerily realistic creation made with the help of NASA. The program takes one on a 15 minute trip to the moon. So we just have to wear a VR headset and are ready to take a virtual tour of the moon. It is so realistic that it almost feels like one is actually on the moon and discovering further about its landscape. The program offers zero gravity and rugged landscape experience of the moon.
In a dream come true moment people will be now able to take a tour of the moon on earth. In the first of its kind creation of an art piece British artist sculptor and Turner prize winner Anthony Gormley has joined hands with Astrophysicist Priya Natarajan to enter into the world of virtual reality.
Together they have curetted a technological artwork called Lunatick: which is a 15 minute long visual reality experience that will allow viewers to walk on the digital version of the moon made using data from NASA.
This virtual reality experience will allow viewers to walk across the moon’s surface by travelling from an imagined version of Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean through the earth’s atmosphere to the moon. With the help of a hand-held gaming stick and through the movement of their own bodies visitors will be able to move across the moon’s craters and experience the weightlessness of bouncing on its surface.In between the route from the sun to the moon viewers will travel through the stratosphere and around the asteroid belts. This virtual reality experience is offered to the viewer’s at the Store X’s stores at 180 The Strand London.
The studio for the experience has been designed by Acute Art who created a place in a room with five VR headsets. The virtual reality show Lunatick which the makers have named and designed meticulously can be experienced till 25th April in London. While, walking on the moon for real may remain a dream for most ordinary citizens, this program is sure to become a renowned innovation.
