Sequence VR: Virtual Reality Microbes and Bacterial DNA
Channel: Alex May Arts
Date: 2018-06-22

Take part in an immersive virtual reality experience and find yourself first surrounded by colonies of bacteria from the human skin, then inside a next generation sequencer as you fly through a light field created by fluorescent molecules attaching to millions of DNA bases from a bacterium called Staphylococcus aureus. Then be part of big data as the genetic information rains down around you and finally find yourself inside the ring-shaped genome several miles across.

We will also  be showcasing the experience at the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition  from the 2nd to the 8th of July in London.

https://royalsociety.org/science-events-and-lectures/2018/summer-science-exhibition/

Read more about the Science of Sequence VR and more here: 

http://modmedmicro.nsms.ox.ac.uk/resistanceisfutile/

This 3D Virtual Reality experience all about Microbes and Bacterial DNA, was created by internationally-acclaimed artists Anna Dumitriu and Alex May in partnership with Modernising Medical Microbiology.

Sequence VR is now available on YouTube, and can be experienced using your own smartphone using a cardboard headset.

You can learn more about the project here:

http://annadumitriu.tumblr.com/Sequence

You can find out more about how to make your own headset, or source one here:

http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-make-Google-Cardboard/

https://vr.google.com/intl/en_uk/cardboard/get-cardboard/

The 3D VR Experience is created using the Fugio software designed by Alex May.  This is an open source visual programming system for building digital art and creative projects quickly, with no programming experience required. It is created and maintained by Alex May and available for open use as part of May’s wider endeavour to democratise access to cutting edge technologies for artists.

Many thanks to the University of Oxford Knowledge Exchange Seed Fund for supporting the roll-out of this experience at the Royal Society Summer Event.