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Eye of the Owl - Bosch VR

Go back in time over 500 years to Hieronymus Bosch's studio and explore his masterpiece - The Garden of Earthly Delights

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4.2K

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92%

9.2/10

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Eye of the Owl - The Hieronymus Bosch VR experience. Enabling you to go back in time to the artist’s studio and explore his masterpiece, The Garden of Earthly Delights. This application gives you the tools to explore the painting on your own in otherwise impossible detail, while the artist himself describes the bizarre and mystifying scenes. The painting has been digitized in ultra-high resolution, you can see the brushstrokes and into the cracks. Use a virtual magnifying glass you hold in your hand to discern the faintest details. Activate the magic carpet shrink transformation to see the characters life size and even more detail.
See what you can discover about Bosch and his masterpiece.

Instructions

Only one controller is used

Studio
- Use the buttons on the magnifying glass controller
- Info/Shrink - select an information point by seeing the info icon thru the magnifying glass, then pressing the Info button to shrink to the region
- Zoom - Toggel magnification factor on mag glass (only available on the top studio level)
- Timer - Displayed around the Info button when in shrink mode
Keyboard
- Space bar = Restart
- D = Demo/Exhibition mode (shorter, only 3POIs)
- X = Exit/Quit

Key Features

A virtual magnifying glass

You hold a magnifying glass in your hand and use it to magnify your view just like a real magnifying glass. Two different zoom levels available.

Ultra-high resolution painting detail

You can see brushstrokes, and even the cracks in the painting. This is the highest resolution painting or likely any VR object to date.

A painting soundscape

3D binaural sounds are positioned on the painting to alert the viewer to components in the scenes. Use headphones for 3D sound.

Shrinking the viewer

You can shrink on the magic carpet for more close up detail and see the characters in life size.

Vive Room Space

Ability to walk around and intimately examine this extraordinary painting.

Information

Narration from the latest art historian research

Player reviews (40)

Recommended1h played1 found helpfulAug 2019

I really like it. Interior of house and characters could be better but otherwise its very infomative. I need more!

Recommended1h played1 found helpfulMay 2021

Very interesting. This lets you look at a piece of art in three parts by Hieronymus Bosch and the Garden of Earthly Delighst, it's called. It's the first time I've really looked at his work. The guy himself pops up to explain some of his picture, sounding very modern and very American. You can get a real good look at the pic with a magnifying glass and it zooms even closer if you click it. Then the artist explains some of the pic. He explains precious little about the work, although what he does explain is interesting. however, there is obviously far, far more going on in the painting. I could already see numerous strange things that had me questioning like crazy and I suspect it really helps to look at it NOT from a 21st century mind, but a Medieval mind, and that it begins to get easier to understand. I like how God in the first part of the picture of the Creation of Adam and Eve looks out of the picture at the viewer, breaking the 4th wall as though to say, "I created you too and I know you look!" It was also somewhat funny where the artist described music as a thing that made people act uncontrollably, as though possesed by a devil and therefore bad... Boy, I'd hate to see what he'd say if he saw the 'popular' mustic of people today! In some ways he's not wrong! As an artist myself I always feel a certain kinship to these guys. Definitely worth a look. On the HP Reverb G2, which I must say really allows for a detailed viewing..

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