Victoria GOES Expo – now screening in 3D!
An innovative new three-dimensional movie was launched at the Melbourne Museum today, giving viewers a taste of World Expo 2005 in Aichi, Japan.
Shot using a stereo camera set-up, the 5-minute ‘Victoria GOES Expo’ movie is shown on interactive, immersive screens in the Melbourne Museum’s Virtual Room.
Opening the show, Victoria’s Minister for Manufacturing and Export, Andre Haermeyer, said it was ‘not only a terrific tribute to the Victorian involvement in the Australian pavilion at World Expo, but also a very fitting way to show off the Virtual Room technology, which was developed right here in Melbourne.’
Commissioned by the Department of Innovation, Industry and Regional Development on behalf of Victorian State Government, the movie brings the World Expo experience home.
Taking viewers on a virtual tour of the Australian pavilion, it reflects the theme of the Expo – ‘Nature’s Wisdom’ - from an Australian perspective. A journey through time, the movie begins 65,000 years ago when Indigenous people lived in harmony with the land, before moving to the present day with 80 plasma screens showing our unique Australian way of life.
A special transportable Virtual Room will take this movie and three other short 3D films on tour to five Victorian regional centres during August and September.