A Virtual Reality Story of Diversity and Its Loss
Animating the Biodiversity Wall
Building a "Wall of Biodiversity" (2007) by Hwa Ja Götz (MfN) Museum für Naturkunde Berlin
In 2007 the Museum für Naturkunde built the Berlin Biodiversity Wall, which tells many stories about Evolution in Action.
One story of life is the story of long periods of the evolution of amazing diversity as well as short periods of great loss (mass extinctions).
Deep Biodiversity in Perspective (Berlin Biodiversity Wall) (2016-09-12) by Gregor Hagedorn (MfN) Museum für Naturkunde Berlin
On the following pages, we present a brief Virtual Reality movie on the relation between diversity, nature, and our own human species.
On normal devices (computer, smartphone) you can view the film as a 360° movie (remember to pan around).
However, if you have a smartphone with cardboard or any other VR headsets, you can view the video as a truly amazing VR Story!
First, the English language version...
Animating the Biodiversity Wall – A story of Diversity and its Loss in Virtual Reality (English version) (2016-09-11) by Museum für Naturkunde Museum für Naturkunde Berlin
Deep Biodiversity in Perspective (Berlin Biodiversity Wall) (2016-09-12) by Gregor Hagedorn (MfN) Museum für Naturkunde Berlin
The next page contains a German language version of the same movie:
Die Biodiversitätswand im Museum für Naturkunde Berlin – jetzt in Virtual Reality (German Version) (2016) Museum für Naturkunde Berlin
Images: Hwa Ja Götz, Google Cultural Institute, Gregor Hagedorn
VR-Production:
Created by the Google Cultural Institute and the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin.
Text by Gregor Hagedorn, Oskar Neumann, Sonja Calvus, David Lazarus, and Martin Aberhan; with contributions by Elisabeth Callot, Alice Chodura, Astrid Faber, Kristina Leipold, and Gesine Steiner. Voice: Johannes Vogel
Photographs used inside the Movie: Google Cultural Institute (Gigapixel image); NASA (used under Public Domain US Government)
Copyright: Museum für Naturkunde Berlin.
Experience the famous biodiversity wall also in other exhibits:
1. Biodiversity 24 / 3000 / 8 Million
– 24 examples from the 3000 species in the wall (approximate viewing time: 25 min., abbreviate by sampling only some species!).
2. A Tagged Biodiversity Wall
, with a zoomable gigapixel panorama containing the names of selected specimens and groups (approximate viewing time: 4 min. – plus any amount of time to explore the names).
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