Las Meninas in VR: Storytelling and the Illusion in Art
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چکیده
Las Meninas is a virtual reality VR artwork based on the painting of the same name by Spanish painter Diego Velazquez Created for the CAVE tm Las Meni nas attempts to establish a language of art in virtual reality by placing VR in the realm of storytelling storytelling that is not simply formalistic and decorative but also psychological The viewer confronts a narrative cryptogram which can be deciphered at multiple levels of meaning as he seeks to explore the enigmas inherent in the painting by literally entering into it both physically and psycho logically This allows for the suspension of disbelief or the illusion in art the quintessential rule of art
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