This study offers a comparative analysis of user experience and levels of immersion in regards to screen based solutions for virtual museums and virtual reality based (VR) solutions with Head mounted displays (HMD). The aim of this study is to better inform design and research and development of virtual museums using real-time 3DCG for achieving an experience of presence and immersion for viewer that comparable to viewing experiences in an actual museum. We have developed a virtual museum that can be experienced both on a large screen display and also via VR on an HMD. Users can experience the viewing space where paintings, picture scrolls, and 3D-objects are placed in the virtual museum, and the virtual space by freely walking through the virtual environment (VE). The development environment used for the study is the Unity’s game engine, created in-game objects, and introduced output content for outputting as VR in Oculus. Then, Compare the results of the comparison experiment of the virtual museum conducted in Sweden and the comparison experiment of the virtual museum conducted in Japan in the previous research, and evaluate what is close to actual viewing.
We have been researching and developing virtual museums that can enable a user to appreciate artworks with much reality and less stress as if one is experiencing in actual museums. For this time, as a method to further increase the reality of the virtual museum, we developed a virtual museum using Head Mounted Display. We used Oculus Rift and Unity Game Engine to develop this VR museum. We also performed a comparison of the developed VR museum and the screen-based virtual museum in order to maximize the user experience of the virtual museum. Four aspects of "Freedom of operation", "Immersion", "Comfort of play", and "Picture quality" are examined to clarify which type of virtual museum would be suitable for any specific user's needs.
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