Restore VR II
for Dunhuang Murals /

With the development of digital technology, tourists have higher expectations of digital cultural heritage (CH) visiting experiences. However, there are very few generalized research and design guidelines on how to generate expert knowledge and transfer the value or connotations of digital CH to users in a virtual reality (VR) environment. In this article, we propose a virtual and immersive CH interactive system to generate embodied knowledge and deliver cultural value to the public, taking the virtual restoration experience of the Dunhuang murals as an example. We utilized immersive VR as an interactive medium to provide the public with learning, interactive, and entertaining experiences, to help them transform from tourists to learners while experiencing the digital CH. According to the results of a quantitative and qualitative evaluation study, our system could promote users' cognition of CH preservation and be applied in the domain of digital CH experiences.

Keywords: immersive virtual reality; cultural heritage; multimodal interaction; immersive experience; Dunhuang mural preservation