[NAME]:

 

VR Touch Museum

 

[PURPOSE]:

     

      1. A new way to display artifacts 

         2. A kind of "Virtual Museum"

         3. Use VR to provide more historical background

         4. More interaction

         5. Use touch to add more immersive feeling

         6. Measure the "presence" and "learning achievement"

         

[idea]:

 

Virtual Reality(VR) Touch museum is a kind of experimental museum that I proposed to challenge the way that traditional museum used to display items and conduct learning process. As indicated in the name, two crucial features are included in such museum: One is Virtual Reality technique, the other is the sense of touch. This means such museum will be based on Virtual Reality as well as a sense of touch corresponding to the virtual world. I hope in this new kind of museum, visitors could not only see the artifact that conventionally displays alone in a modern museum building, but could enter into space where this artifact originally positioned/manufactured. For example, in the traditional museum, we can only see an ancient vase displayed inside a glass-box, however in my Virtual Reality Touch Museum, by virtue of VR head-mounted display(HMD), visitors could go back to the room/place where the ancient vase was originally positioned/produced. Besides VR, I would also hope visitors could have a real feeling of its material and obtain a strong feeling of “presence” (a feeling of “being there”). Therefore, by combining both virtual and real world, a visitor could immerse in a historical context and then strengthen their memory while visiting.

What’s more, my project also includes an experiment that measured and compared the “presence” and “learning achievement” among three different conditions: PC monitor, Virtual Reality, Virtual Reality + Touch. I need this experiment to tell us if my VR touch museum has a better performance in presence and learning achievement.

 

[software + hardware]:

        HTC VIVE, Leap Motion, Unity3D, Maya, structure sensor

 

[function]:

 

 

       1. Visit a virtual museum by VR device,

       2. change scenes by user's different location,

       3. Step on two kinds of surface, each surface represents the different scene,

       4. Touch real material of object by hands

       5. Control some virtual objects. (Move, rotate…)

 

 

[中文介绍 ]:

VR触觉博物馆是一个将VR和触觉结合的博物馆装置。其设计初衷是用来改变传统博物馆的展览方式。用虚拟现实融合触觉增加博物馆的沉浸体验。实验设计测量使用者是否在VR+触觉的情况下有更好的沉浸感和记忆力。

Demo国内链接：https://v.qq.com/x/page/m062290mdeh.html