Visiting the School of Creative Media yesterday I was surprised to find myself in a pretty amazing machine called Gallery 360, which creates an immersive and interactive environment that is one way of representing remote locations. The form of the installation, the 360 degree rotunda, actually goes back to the 19th century panorama. The panorama then was one of the most influential forms of visual entertainment and consisted of a giant painting often combined with extra scenery in front of it. Switzerland has a famous panorama in Lucerne, the Bourbaki that shows a scene from the Franco-Prussian War.
