When I first experience a picture of a street turn into a 3d environment I thought it was wonderful and that we would gradually learn to travel further into the

When I first experience a picture of a street turn into a 3d environment I thought it was wonderful and that we would gradually learn to travel further into the painting with each cm taking more effort than the cm before. Eventually we would be able to (be it virtually) walk our way from something closely matching reality (or the imagination of the artist) to a collectively generated fully imaginary environment without knowing where one ends and the other begins.