She longs to get there, but the door is too small. There is also a key on the table, which unlocks a tiny door through this door, she spies a beautiful garden. She falls for a long time, and finds herself in a long hallway full of doors. Fascinated by the sight, she follows the rabbit down the hole.
It’s the first time the V&A has used VR for an event and continues the museum’s reputation for integrating the latest technologies in large-scale exhibitions.Alice is sitting with her sister outdoors when she spies a White Rabbit with a pocket watch. Through integrating artwork by Icelandic illustrator Kristjana S Williams, the VR experience situates fantastical elements of Caroll’s novel - giant butterflies, flamingos, and, yes, rabbit holes - within digital recreations of the physical museum.īeyond exploring immersive worlds, users are invited to complete challenges such as solving caterpillar riddles and playing a game of croquet with the Queen of Hearts.
VR is a medium ideally suited for Alice and Wonderland’s psychedelic and kaleidoscope worlds which has captivated audiences since it was published a century and a half ago. Originally planned as the museum’s blockbuster exhibition for summer 2020, it’s added to displaying the Royal Ballet’s extravagant sets and costumes from “The Red Queen” and Ralph Steadman’s iconic illustrations by partnering with HTC Vive Arts and Preloaded, an immersive games studio, to create an accompanying VR experience that will be available to visitors when it opens in late March 2021. Fittingly, London’s Victoria & Albert Museum is pairing old and new by using virtual reality (VR) to complement its upcoming exhibition “ Alice: Curiouser and Curiouser”, an exploratory ode to Lewis Carroll’s classic novel. Instead, it has come to connote the habit of burrowing ever deeper through cyberspace, an experience familiar to many after months of increased reliance on digital connectivity. In the internet age, down the rabbit hole is an expression largely divorced from its literary origins.
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