Digital exhibition enables people to see the wonders 6,500 meters down in the ocean

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With the latest technology, digital exhibitions enable people to get into different virtual worlds they might never be able to go in real life. Japanese design and art agency Naked Inc. has created a virtual underwater world in an immersive exhibition.

Seeing the wonders of the ocean could be realized by diving, but exploring the ocean floor?

Here at the show Aquarium by Naked, visitors do have the experience of sinking down to 6,500 meters under the sea. After walking through an underwater-like tunnel, the ocean is everywhere in sight.

Exhibition "Aquarium by Naked" /Photo by Naked Inc.

The immersive experience is built by video projection mapping which transforms the real oceanic scene into the screen.

Ryotaro Muramatsu, CEO of Naked Inc., tries to unveil the real underwater mystery to the visitors in the virtual world. "For example, that is a jelly wall. You can see the jellyfish. They look strange, like LED lighting, but they are real. I found that kind of living things living in the deep sea. That's amazing."

But as an actor and film director, Muramatsu also blends in his artistic creation. "If I explain deep ocean straight, it will look like hell. So I changed a little, but I based on reality."

Exhibition "Aquarium by Naked" /Photo by Naked Inc.

The cutting-edge exhibition Aquarium by Naked, together with the company's other serial shows Flowers by Naked, Sweets by Naked and City Night Fantasia have caused sensations when held in Japan.

Its current two-month-long presence in Beijing is also expecting a booming visiting volume.

Digital art exhibitions are no stranger to Beijing visitors these days. Through modern technology, traditional art pieces like those collected by the Palace Museum could be better demonstrated, and more importantly, concepts in minds or unreachable places could be experienced for real, like this one held at Beijing's Guardian Art Center.