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Virtual reality helps veterans create 3D-printed artwork

Virtual reality helps veterans create 3D-printed artwork

Written by David

November 19, 2019

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Wilson Bautista gazed around the room surrounded by colorful white and blue pieces of stunning glass art. There was beauty all around him.

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“I’ve never seen a museum dedicated to glass art, and this is very unique,” he said. Glass gleams in every corner of the 48,000 square feet of gallery space inside Imagine Museum on Central Avenue. For nearly two years, the gallery has displayed, pun intended, over 500 imaginative pieces of art by world-renowned creators from around the globe.

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The newest display puts a spin on the Imagine tradition. “This is once in a lifetime,” said Natacha Delince.

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Downstairs, near the entryway of the popular St. Petersburg museum, stands five small totems made of pressed plastic. Each piece was created through a unique process of 3D-printing an image sculpted using virtual reality. Five local veterans were selected to mold the pieces, which […]

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