In July 2020, with galleries and museums still struggling to welcome visitors, Wide VR and Mucciaccia Gallery launched what Artribune described as the first exhibition ever built on 3D cloud streaming, dedicated to the Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama. The story was covered by Artribune.

A virtual exhibition built on cloud streaming

The exhibition opened on 28 July 2020 on the website of Mucciaccia Gallery, the gallery founded in 2006 by Massimiliano Mucciaccia, with spaces in Rome, Cortina, London, New York and Singapore. It was developed by Wide VR, the Milan-based startup founded by architect Edoardo Graziadei and gallerist Andrea Zardin, and it could be visited online until 31 August 2020.

Why cloud streaming changes everything

Most virtual exhibitions force a trade-off: the more detailed and realistic the 3D scene, the more powerful the visitor's computer has to be. Cloud streaming removes the problem. As Edoardo Graziadei explained to Artribune, a highly demanding PC application runs on a remote supercomputer and is streamed to the visitor, who can explore it from any device.

The artist and the works

The exhibition was dedicated to Yayoi Kusama, born in Matsumoto in 1929 and one of the most celebrated artists in the world. It brought together works created between the 1950s and 2007, including three large sculptures from Kusamatrix, the 2004 exhibition at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo that was seen by more than one million people.

A milestone for virtual exhibitions

This project applied cloud streaming to a virtual exhibition for the first time, and it showed that a gallery could offer a high-quality 3D experience to its audience online, on any device. It is an approach we continue to bring to the projects we build at Wide VR: real-time 3D experiences that are immersive, accessible and ready to be shared.

Read the full article on Artribune (in Italian).