Inside Reinventing Reality: Explore the Science of Virtual Reality, visitors experience first-hand how perception, digital models, and tracking technologies bring virtual reality to life.
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Bird’s-eye view
1. EXPERIENCE VIRTUAL REALITY Guests dive into fully immersive VR experiences.
2. REALITY OR PERCEPTION? Guests discover how VR uses—and sometimes fools—our brain to make the virtual world seem real.
3. CREATING VIRTUAL WORLDS This section includes 12 VR Experience Pods, and 6 STEM professionals are profiled in a series of short documentaries.
4. BRINGING WORLDS TO LIFE Guests explore how computers create and project 3D objects into the virtual and real worlds.
5. INSIDE A VR HEADSET Here we reveal how VR uses tools like cameras and gyroscopes to capture our body movements so we can interact with virtual environments.
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Awards
2021: Gold MUSE Award in the AR, VR, Mixed Reality category. Read more here.
Select Press
“Science North Launches New Virtual Reality Exhibit”, The Sault Star, May 7, 2022. Read the article here.
“Interactive Virtual Experience Pops Up At Valley Fair”, Silicon Valley Voice, October 7, 2021. Read the article here.
“Things to do at Home This Week: Virtual Reality”, New York Times, September 12, 2020, Read the article here.
“Reinventing Reality VR exhibit opens for girls at Lawrence Hall of Science”, Venture Beat, December 14, 2019. Read the article here. “Reinventing Reality at the Lawrence Hall of Science”, Hi Tech Glitz, December 2019. Read the article here.
VR Download interviews Executive Director, Meghan Lee, UploadVR, December 14, 2019. Listen here.
“I thought I’d just watch some movies or play games with it [VR], but then...this exhibit showed me how it works.”
“I love science and this is a wonderful explanation of what science is. I love it!”
“I LOVE this exhibit. I’m coming back tomorrow!”