It was almost inevitable that the extant coming-of-age of Virtual Reality would, in short order, take us places we should not go.
Case in point: the St. Petersburg Dali Museum has produced Dreams of Dali, a 3-D, 360° video for the Occulus Rift and Google Cardboard headsets, to transport you inside the surreal landscapes that could only exist within the mind of the consummate surrealist.
Don’t get me wrong. Dali is one of my favorite artists of all time. But his work is disturbing enough in two dimensions. That third dimension of experience might just be the one that tips the balance of sanity.
Check it out here in the form of a sanity-hoarding YouTube imbed, followed by Dali’s bizarre collaboration with Walt Disney (really!), the subject of the present Dali Museum exhibition:
