New technologies such as digital twins, virtual reality, and naked eye 3D bring museum exhibits to life
2024-07-19
Summer is coming, and the flow of visitors to museums around the world is increasing. In recent years, the cultural and museum industry has continued to heat up, and museums have become popular destinations for public leisure and sightseeing. At the same time, museums around the world actively apply technologies such as digital twins, virtual reality (VR), and naked eye 3D to innovate exhibitions and interactive forms, allowing visitors to experience the beauty of the integration of technology and culture. Combining reality and virtuality to enrich the experience. "Wearing these virtual reality glasses, you can 'travel' back to ancient times and see the living scenes of the residents of Dahe Village in the past." In the VR experience area of the first floor exhibition hall of the Dahe Village Site Museum in Zhengzhou, Liu Yichang, a guide from the Dahe Village Site Museum, introduced that after the audience wears the VR glasses, they can click on different pages with the controller to see the living scenes of the ancestors of Dahe Village. With the help of VR technology, the way museums are visited has undergone a revolutionary change. The audience can no longer simply observe the exhibits with their eyes, but can also "participate" in the exhibition and have a more intuitive understanding of the exhibits. In the Digital Dunhuang Immersion Exhibition Hall in the the Mogao Grottoes of Dunhuang Scenic Area, after wearing VR glasses, visitors can "walk into" the caves, break the constraints of time and space, and "travel through" to the exquisite mural world more than 1400 years ago. Using VR technology, the staff performed a 1:1 high-precision stereoscopic reconstruction of the cave. With the help of relevant equipment, the audience can not only enjoy the mural up close, but also "fly" to the top of the cave, transform into the protagonist of the mural story, and "dance" with more than 40 immortals such as Lei Gong. Unlike the virtual world experience brought by VR technology, augmented reality (AR) technology can overlay the virtual world with the real world, providing viewers with a virtual real combined viewing experience. At the Chengdu Museum, visitors wear AR glasses and walk into the exhibition hall, looking at the exhibits they are interested in. Then, pictures and videos of the exhibits will pop up in the glasses. This seamlessly integrates online explanations with offline exhibits, significantly enhancing the visitor experience. If the audience does not want to wear AR glasses, they can also download designated apps on their mobile phones to use AR functions. For example, the AR navigation function in related mobile apps combines AR technology with online maps to achieve 3D stereoscopic navigation, overlaying navigation routes on real-world roads to guide viewers to their destination as soon as possible. In addition, the relevant apps have also set up virtual guides at designated locations. The audience can scan the designated content to "summon" a virtual guide and listen to explanations about the exhibits. Light and shadow technology restores the history of birds flying, flowers blooming, and streams flowing... Walking into the Jiangxin Museum of Zhejiang Province, as the holographic projection screen "scroll" slowly unfolds, a 5-meter-high and 40 meter long digital scroll vividly presents the "Dwelling in Fuchun Mountain" from over 600 years ago to people. With the help of holographic imaging, naked eye 3D and other light and shadow technologies, immersive digital exhibitions have become a new way of exhibition for museums. The audience can "return" to the historical scene and experience ancient civilization up close by standing in the exhibition hall. The use of light and shadow technology to assist in display has become very common nowadays. We have applied various latest light and shadow technologies in over 100 locations throughout the exhibition hall, including OLED interaction, naked eye 3D, and more Introduction by Chen Shuihua, Director of Zhejiang Provincial Museum. In front of the naked eye 3D display screen on the second floor of Zhengzhou Museum, visitors only need to stand at the "best viewing position" marked on the ground to experience a visual experience that is about to be revealed. Yang Jianjun, director of the Zhengzhou Museum Management Center, introduced that using naked eye 3D technology, visitors can see 3D images without wearing glasses or helmets or other auxiliary equipment. It breaks the traditional display method and allows the audience to see more details of the exhibits. At present, Zhengzhou Museum has displayed 5 high-quality cultural relics in naked eye 3D. In addition to constantly updating their display and interaction methods, many museums in China have utilized technologies such as metaverse and digital twins to establish cloud museums and digital museums on websites, mini programs, and other platforms, bringing offline exhibitions online and innovating the way cultural relics are displayed and disseminated, achieving 24-hour non-stop operation. Even if the audience stays at home, they can still enjoy the cultural ocean. Xi'an Museum cooperates with Internet enterprises to transform cultural relics collection into virtual interactive content by means of real-time cloud rendering, generative artificial intelligence, 3D high-definition modeling and other technologies. For example, in the metaverse 3D interactive space based on the important collection "Wangchuan Map", viewers can enter the online metaverse space with the help of mobile phones, computers, virtual reality devices, etc., embody the characters in "Wangchuan Map", and freely walk in the 20 scenes of Wangchuan depicted by Wang Wei. Each scene in the picture triggers the corresponding scene introduction and the poetry written by Wang Wei, complementing each other with one scene and one poem. Accompanied by the beautiful scenery in the painting and Wang Wei's poetry, the audience can try to experience Wang Wei's state of mind at that time through the brush and ink landscape. In recent years, the National Museum of China has continued to promote the construction of a "smart national museum". The development of Guobo App, Mini Program, and Smart Navigation System has made activities such as "Cloud Guobo", "Guobo Cloud Exhibition", and "Guobo Cloud Live Streaming" the norm. Viewers can enjoy the exquisite exhibitions of the National Museum of China from the cloud, and get up close to appreciate the profound and long-standing Chinese civilization. At the end of 2023, a new achievement in the revitalization and utilization of cultural relics in the National Museum of China, the pilot project of the Chinese Civilization Cloud Exhibition, will be launched. Unlike previous exhibitions, this exhibition is guided by Ai Wenwen, the first digital expert in China's museum industry, leading the audience to an immersive online viewing experience. "Congratulations on the entry of lovely Ai Wenwen" "Ancient memory, hand in hand with modern technology, full of sense of reality"... Netizens wrote praise to Ai Wenwen on the message board of the official WeChat official account of the National Museum of China. He Zhanzhe, Deputy Director of the Office of the Leading Group for the Revitalization of Cultural Relics at the National Museum of China, introduced that the Chinese Civilization Cloud Exhibition is an online exhibition hall built on the basis of the Ancient China Exhibition Hall at the National Museum of China. Every year, there are a large number of visitors to the Ancient China Exhibition Hall at the National Museum of China. We hope that more people can see this exhibition at home, so we introduced AI Wenwen, a smart person, and let her lead everyone to visit, which will make the audience feel closer He Zhanzhe introduced that Ai Wenwen is both a virtual character and a character of intelligence. The R&D team utilizes technologies such as digital twins, bone binding, and motion capture to give digital humans vivid expressions and rich body movements, bringing static digital models to life and transforming them into charming and charming young girls. At the same time, the R&D team accurately restored the three-dimensional perspective space of the exhibition hall, using 3D and real-life video synthesis rendering technology to allow Ai Wenwen to "walk" into the real scene. Ai Wenwen can create a magical "connection" with the cultural relics in the collection, possessing a unique ability to bring them to life. In addition, Ai Wenwen also possesses strong self-learning and adaptive abilities, constantly updating and enriching her knowledge, and enhancing her interaction skills with the audience. (New Society)
Edit:NingChangRun Responsible editor:LiaoXin
Source:Science and Technology Daily
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