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[*Young blind man in a sweater, sitting alone in a room with brick walls. Background cello music.*]

**Young man**: It was very new to me when I tried it for the first time. It was like a different world.

[*black screen with white text*] Over 253 million people in the world are visually impaired.

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[*The young man is wearing black virtual reality gloves, waving his hands in front of his face*]

**Young man**: I was thinking - how can I feel in these gloves? How the hell am I supposed to feel something now? Then the vibrations came and it was something I totally didn’t expect.

[*black screen with white text*] Neurodigital presents TOUCHING MASTERPIECES

**Young man**: Art is not always explainable just by words. The element to touch it, and to know, to feel it is missing.

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[*black screen with white text*] A unique VR experience for the blind and visually impaired.

**Young man**: When first touching the virtual statue I was kinda puzzled, like

[*The young man is now wearing a tuxedo and VR gloves. Behind him is a digital rendering of the Venus de Milo. As the young man moves his hands, we see what part of the statue he is “feeling.” He smiles broadly.*]

**Young man’s voice**: It actually works! Yeah, there’s something in front of me that is existing.

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[*Camera is moving down a museum’s long hallway. A sign says the exhibit is called “Touching Masterpieces.”*]

**Young man’s voice**: Usually when you come to a museum you can’t touch these things, so I can just hear about it from a guide or someone who is with me reading that. That’s not the full experience.

[*We see the young man in the brick room, then some Braille signage on a museum display about da Vinci’s David*]

**Young man**: It shouldn’t be.

[*black screen with white text*] March 2018, The National Gallery in Prague

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[*Close up of many adults putting on virtual reality gloves*]

**Young man’s voice**: The best moment, of course, was when I started to have an idea of, like, what part of the body I’m touching.

[*We see several participants using VR gloves to experience David, Venus de Milo, a bust of Cleopatra. Close ups on various faces - they all look genuinely excited.*]

**Young man’s voice**: Having the art in front of you, and you can explore it and see how much your imagination was right and what you wouldn’t expect. For example about David, like, yeah, I knew this guy would have a big head, but that it’s this big?

[*A VR display shows Venus de Milo. There are red, green, and black marks indicating where a person is “touching” it. A young woman is now speaking to the camera. She is in a museum hall.*]

**Young woman**: I recognized the dress of Venus de Milo, I said, like “This is the dress!” and they said “Yes, alright!” [*laughs, screen fades to black*]

**Young woman’s voice**: So it was the greatest.

(01:48)

[*Back to the young man in the brick room*]

**Young man**: The entire experience, this is something that adds this element which was missing before. That you can...see it, really, and know the beauty of the art and touch it.

[*black screen with white text*] Explore more at touchingmasterpieces.com

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[*End of Video.*]

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