The power of art, place and VR are on display at the National Gallery
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➨ The National Gallery in London is hosting a digital exhibition early next year that uses VR to recreate the setting in which a sixteenth-century painting was originally displayed
➨ Visitors to the exhibition will be able to admire The Consecration of Saint Nicholas by Paolo Veronese
➨ Focal Point VR developed the VR simulation at the centre of the digital exhibition, called Virtual Veronese
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The National Gallery in London is hosting a digital exhibition early next year that uses virtual reality (VR) to recreate the setting in which a sixteenth-century painting was originally displayed.
Visitors to the exhibition, to be held from 7 March to 3 April 2022, will be able to admire The Consecration of Saint Nicholas, by Paolo Veronese, as it would have been seen in 1562.
Focal Point VR developed the VR simulation at the centre of the digital exhibition, called Virtual Veronese, that features a virtual recreation of the original chapel in the church of San Benedetto al Po, near Mantua.