Delivering cultural heritage and historical events to people through virtual reality

Abstract

The concept of Society 5.0 promotes a human-centered society and uses advance technology as its core. In other words, human uses technology to improve and support their daily life. One of the best inventions in technology is digitalizing data. This means human found a new way in storing information, including information about culture and history. The technology in converting physical data into digital data is beneficial for historical and cultural archiving. People can see and watch historical events as if they had lived in that era of the event with extreme immersiveness. One technology that can provide the possibilities is called Virtual Reality animation. This research aims to promote the idea of using VR animation to recreate historical or traditional events for educational material and entertainment material. Methods in this research is mainly observation on today’s state of Virtual Reality animation and people interest on history and tradition. The results shows that advanced technology Virtual Reality and Artificial Intelligence allows people to learn histories from the past and explore new things in the present to live in the better future.