The pandemic has been an unexpected occasion for art lovers to take advantage of a digital platform that allows famous and anonymous creators to exhibit their works and for all of us to browse hundreds of museums, galleries and interesting exhibitions from our… living room!
Artsteps, an idea of Greek conception, is an easy-to-use electronic platform that paved the way for the creation of 3D virtual exhibitions. To date, more than 600,000 creators, universities, companies, non-profit organizations, and even government organizations from 250 countries around the world have used it, attracting millions of visitors to their digital showrooms!
The wonderful virtual world of art
Thanks to Artsteps, thousands of creators have gained the ability to present their artworks in a space exactly as they imagined it. The wonderful virtual world of art has nothing to envy from the real one!
The digital platform gives countless options to creators to build their virtual museum from scratch using sophisticated virtual reality (VR) tools. They can choose the places where they want walls, partitions, corridors and doors, as well as choose between different colors, surfaces and materials to decorate the rooms with their exhibits. They are also given the ability to guide visitors by making stops at specific points of interest and provide them with detailed information by audio or other means.
But the platform has also provided for creators who are looking for a faster solution to setting up their online exhibition, offering them several options among ready-made digital exhibition spaces, in which they can quickly and easily upload their exhibits in a few simple steps.
Field of… lampron exhibitions for visitors
For their part, thousands of users have gained a unique opportunity to browse showrooms that they may never have had access to before. Thanks to a simple search engine, they can find the exhibitions of their interests, browse and enjoy them. They also have the ability to comment, rate and share them on social media.
From art to education and beyond!
The Artsteps platform is not only an online platform for art lovers. They have embraced it in recent years and many teachers and students, who during the lockdown turned to online teaching and learning methods. Artsteps offered not only the possibility of distance education, but also the possibility for anyone who wanted it to raise public awareness on specific topics and research projects, to host events or simply to interact and share pleasant moments in a 3D digital environment.
Traffic on artsteps.com skyrocketed from 150-200 active users per day in February 2020 to 15-20,000 per day in May 2020, a number that remains stable today, with an average of 250,000 visitors per month. Creators have so far published over 500,000 VR exhibitions and stories, comprising more than 15 million digital exhibits and attracting over 20 million views!
To explore the wonderful world of virtual art yourself, visit artsteps.com. I have registered it for a long time in the bookmarks of my computer!