Forbidden City: An Immersive Virtual Reality World Using the HTC VIVE to explore the real imperial palace of China

Forbidden City is a 3D virtual tour of an ancient Chinese architectural masterpiece, first of the world's top five palaces -The Imperial Palace in Beijing, China. This travel guide is designed to give you useful information that will greatly enhance your experience, and it will bring you into an immersive virtual world by using the device of the HTC VIVE rather than static texts and images. This 3D guide integrates cultural and historical information, which is practical and informative. You can get a comprehensive understanding of the palace history, architectural characteristics and Chinese culture through interaction within the immersive experience. Forbidden City travel guide 3D virtual tour provides all the necessary functions and information for planning a visit to the Forbidden Cty palace in the capital of Beijing, China. With the tour guide character "Doctor Guider" within this experience/game, your tour to this Forbidden City will be purposeful and fun.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Fine Arts

Level thesis:degree_level

masters

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Creative Technologies

Department dc:contributor.department

Art and Art History

Grantor dc:publisher

Virginia Tech

Year dc:date.issued

2017

Author dc:creator

• Liu, Fang

Chair dc:contributor.committeechair

• Tucker, Thomas J.

Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember

• Paterson, Simone W.
• Webster, Dane

• virtual reality
• photogrammetry
• immersive environment
• interaction
• three-dimensional
• tour guide
• educational

Statement dc:rights

• In Copyright

Licence dc:rights.uri

• http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Dc Identifier Other

vt_gsexam:11394

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/77943