Virtual Exhibitions

Create and visit virtual reality exhibitions with an HTC Vive and Unity3D in the virtual museum VIRTUE.

Components

• Front-end: Virtual Exhibition Presenter (VREP, this repository) at https://github.com/VIRTUE-DBIS/virtual-exhibition-presenter
• Back-end: Virtual Exhibition Manager (VREM) at https://github.com/dbisUnibas/virtual-exhibition-manager
• Example for a static exhibition: https://github.com/VIRTUE-DBIS/vre-mixnhack19

Please consult the Wiki or consider reading the Getting Started guide for setup and usage.

Core Features

• Virtual 3D world with positioned art objects
• Freely movable character (player)
• Support for multiple, interchangeable exhibitions
• Static pre-defined or automatically generated exhibition rooms

Getting Started

1. Have a HTC Vive / SteamVR setup. For the installation process, check the manual.
2. Start Unity3D.
3. On the start screen click the Open button.
4. Select this repository.
5. Get yourself the backend.
6. Start the backend.
7. Feed the backend with an exhibition. If you want to make use of automatically generated coherent exhibitions, check out the Wiki.
8. Adjust the configuration file settings.json of VREP accordingly to your setup.
9. Start the incredible immersive experience of having an exhibition at your place.

Contributors

• Ralph Gasser
• Ivan Giangreco
• Silvan Heller
• Mahnaz Parian
• Loris Sauter
• Florian Spiess
• Simon Peterhans
• Rahel Arnold
• Maurizio Pasquinelli

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This piece of software originates from the 4th Swiss Open Cultural Data Hackathon. Read more about our project on the Opendata Wiki.