The exhibition’s design team, Diller Scofidio & Renfro, has been exploring for decades what Elizabeth Diller, a founding partner, calls “real” and “mediated” experiences: actual views juxtaposed with slightly displaced ones. Here, they have created four V.R. environments that can be viewed alongside actual objects. The idea is to put on the goggles and toggle between the two types of experiences.

The settings are based on archival photographs of Chareau’s furniture, interiors and architecture, and on contemporary research done in Paris, the original location of all four settings.

The most vivid are the 360-degree panoramic view of the verdant garden and the interior of the Maison de Verre, Chareau’s 1932 House of Glass in the Seventh Arrondissement.

The goggles take you directly into the house’s striking grand salon, one wall lined with the glass blocks that gave the house its name, the floor covered with Pirelli rubber tiles. The immersive technology lets you appreciate how Chareau’s telephone fan table and fireside chairs must have jumped out of their neutral environment. The panoramic view also lets you see the practical beauty of Chareau’s system of wrought-iron shelves, some almost reaching the ceiling.

The other V.R. settings are more low key but still intimate. One recreates the study from the 1927 residence, on Rue Nollet, of Chareau and his wife, Dollie, also a designer, with its Hosiasson rug, adorned with an abstract, Miró-like design, and sunlit casement windows, which cast shadows on the furniture. Look for the 1927 desk and stool made for the French architect Robert Mallet-Stevens, as well as two bronze sculptures by Lipchitz and Braque’s 1911-12 painting, “Homage to J. S. Bach,” now at the Museum of Modern Art.

The final installation depicts the living room and adjacent spaces of the Paris apartment Chareau designed for the Farhi family around 1930. The V.R. here takes you into every nook and cranny, showing how the curved rail suspended from the ceiling accommodates a plaid accordion screen. There is even smoke wafting from a lighted cigarette, a very Gallic touch.