China News Service, June 24. According to Hong Kong's "Sing Tao Daily", the Hong Kong Yu Lan Festival was included in the national intangible cultural heritage list.
Hong Kong Shue Yan University uses the Metaverse technology to set up a virtual museum, which brings visitors to the scene of the Yu Lan Festival, which is panoramically filmed with ultra-high-definition 8K technology, to help citizens understand the festival with local characteristics.
Chen Qian, Academic Vice President of Renmin University, hopes that the museum can become a pilot for the promotion of liberal arts education through digital technology, so that the public can gain a deeper understanding of different cultures.
The virtual museum of the Yu Lan Festival at the University of Hong Kong is the first virtual museum in Hong Kong with the theme of national intangible heritage. The team uses the Metaverse technology to reproduce the actual situation of the Yu Lan Festival at the Triangle Pier in Sheung Wan. The ultra-high-definition 8K panoramic video, at the scene of the Yu Lan Festival, to understand the scenes of the citizens going to worship and chanting sutras. The team also used photogrammetry to make a virtual model of the altar, reproduce the details of the offerings, incense burners, etc., and introduce the different types of offerings. use.
The virtual museum has built a gallery and exhibition panels to display films, historical pictures and documentaries produced by the team. These materials were collected by the team led by Chen Qian two years ago. The team also conducted interviews with the Yu Lan Festival Organizing Organization.
Citizens can enter the virtual museum through a computer program, or visit through an immersive VR experience, or wear VR glasses, or choose a virtual character to communicate with other visitors.
Chen Qian expects that the development of liberal arts education can be promoted through the virtual museum, "combining digital technology with the research results of the humanities to benefit more people. Not only those who read papers will know the research results of the humanities, but different audiences can also use technology , understand different stories.”
She pointed out that the virtual museum is open to the public and can be arranged for students to visit. For example, the sociology department of the university talks about topics such as collective memory and cultural heritage, and the history department has classes related to the theme of the museum. "Different subjects can study different perspectives through the museum, except for collective memory. You can also study museums under innovative technology.” The subject of intangible cultural heritage has been included in the middle school curriculum, and she believes that the project combines teaching and entertainment elements to help students understand traditional culture from a new perspective.