Source: People's Daily "With this technology, you can enter the grottoes at any time and view the details of the Buddha statues and the reliefs and murals on the cave walls from any location." On May 17, in Area C of the Public Teaching Building of Nankai University Jinnan Campus

Source: People's Daily

"With this technology, you can enter the grottoes at any time and view the details of the Buddha statues and the reliefs and murals on the cave walls from any location."

On May 17, in Area C of the Public Teaching Building of Nankai University Jinnan Campus, volunteers from the Nankai University Museum were giving explanations to teachers and students who came to participate in the event. On that day, the highest temperature in Tianjin exceeded 30 degrees Celsius, but the museum VR experience event being held here seemed to be more popular.

"Technology" meets "cultural relics"

Yungang Grottoes seen with the help of VR equipment. Photo provided by Nankai University

"It's so shocking. I can actually ascend to a height of the cave, look straight at the face of the Buddha, and even see the texture in the eyes of the Buddha."

Hu Xinya, a classmate in the History School who just finished experiencing it, still couldn't hide her excitement. She said that she had been to Yungang Grottoes last year, but she could only watch from a distance and could not see many details clearly. This time, with the help of VR equipment, you can walk around the Yungang Grottoes, and you can appreciate the stone Buddha statues with different expressions and images up close, and you can even see some small Buddha niches clearly, so you can intuitively feel the magnificence of the grottoes.

Hu Xinya said: "Just just now, the handle accidentally touched the Buddha statue, and dust, small gravels, etc. fell down. I felt very distressed, which aroused my inner awareness of cultural relics protection."

"Now, tourists will unconsciously damage cultural relics in some places. We just want to use such a surreal form to awaken everyone's awareness of cultural relics protection deep in their hearts and make caring for cultural relics a social consensus." The teacher in charge of this event introduced.

This experience activity uses a variety of virtual reality interactive devices, allowing participants to "immerse" and enjoy an immersive collaboration experience with large space, multiple people, and free interaction. Participants can climb to the old stage of the Beijing Huguang Association, which was built in the 12th year of Jiaqing in the Qing Dynasty, and watch an authentic Peking Opera masterpiece "Sanchakou" up close, and feel the thrilling struggle in the dark in the play; they can also come to the Grand Hall of the Forbidden City, choose different perspectives through the handle, go to different areas in the hall, and observe the furnishings in the hall from a close distance; they can also visit the tomb of the King of the Western Han Dynasty in Guangzhou, witness the complex structure of the tomb with their own eyes, and use the handle to pick up the cultural relics in the tomb for observation.

porcelain making process and identification and identification of fake virtual simulation interactive experience project. Photo provided by Nankai University

Among them, the most eye-catching thing is the interactive experience project of porcelain making technology and identification and identification of fakes developed by Nankai University. Participants can experience the entire process of raw materials washing, rolling, decorative painting, and firing into the kiln, and use the "fire eyes and golden eyes" to identify the authenticity of ancient porcelain, experience the exquisiteness of ancient Chinese porcelain firing technology, and feel the spirit of "the great country craftsmen".

"After the combination of high technology and traditional art, the cultural relics are alive, spectacular and three-dimensional. I feel that I am standing at the center of history and my understanding of knowledge is deeper." The students who participated in the experience said.

VR reproduces the school history story

Students wear VR glasses and walk into Southwest Associated University. Photo by Wu Junhui

At the scene, Zheng Jian, a 2017 doctoral student at the Nankai University School of Science, put on VR glasses and "entered" to Southwest Associated University, which was born in artillery fire.

This "Southwest Associated University" combines AI technology and alumni oral remarks and repeatedly reviewed and revised, and completed in a 1:1 ratio of 3D high-precision digital model, using technology to "restore" the history of the miracle of Chinese education, fully demonstrating the integration of cutting-edge technologies and the cultural accumulation of famous schools. All participants can enjoy the campus of that year, feel the spirit of self-improvement by the university students, and look back on those strong and strong years.

"I just used the handle and went to the classroom and dormitory of Southwest Associated University. There were explanations everywhere I went, which gave me a real understanding of the environment in which the masters of that year studied and lived." Zheng Jian said, "This also made me cherish the current era more. As young students, we must inherit and carry forward the spirit of Southwest Associated University."

Let the red history "live"

This year marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China. The museum day activity design process that day also specially incorporated the learning and education elements of the party history.

Wearing VR glasses, there are thirteen cold iron chains in front of your sight, and the turbulent river water under your feet, and the sound of gunshots are endless.

VR multi-person collaborative interaction project "Flying to Luding Bridge". Photo provided by Nankai University

At the event site, multiple people collaborative interaction project "flying to capture Luding Bridge", which made the historical chapter of the Communist Party of China "live before our eyes". In the virtual scene, the experiencer returns to the era of war, leans over and climbs the iron chain in the rain of bullets, and bravely kills the enemy in the gray night.

"I stepped on the iron chain at that time and felt my legs tremble. It is hard to imagine that I would attack forward in such a situation. I always saw words like "the cruelty of fighting" in books before, and I really felt it this time." Liu Lanjuan, a master's student in the 2020 History School who just took off his VR glasses, said. The teacher in charge of the

activity introduced that the "Feihuo Luding Bridge" collaborative project has been fully booked within half an hour of the launch of the registration notice. The 2020 Master's Students from the School of History also specially chose to carry out a themed party day activity here.

Student experience multi-person collaborative interaction project "Flying to Luding Bridge". Photo by Wu Junhui

The person in charge of the branch said: "This new technology assisted by party history education is more immersive, and can make us feel the cruelty of the war in an immersive way, and can also better understand the greatness of the 100-year struggle of the Communist Party of China. It has strengthened our belief in loving the party and patriotism, contributed our youth, worked hard, and be a new youth who is capable of serving as the important task of national rejuvenation."

It is understood that this VR experience activity not only provides teachers and students on campus with the opportunity to dialogue with history, but will also go out of the campus and cooperate with primary and secondary schools to allow "cultural relics" to enter the classrooms of Haihe Middle School and Nankai No. 2 Primary School, and better promote the next generation to understand and protect traditional culture.

As a public cultural service institution, the museum should be people-centered and always pay attention to the new needs of society and audiences at different levels. In the era of digital economy, the design and development of museums also require digital innovation to enable excellent traditional culture to better transform and develop innovatively, and this is exactly the direction that Nankai University Museum has always been working hard. The teacher in charge of this event said: "The combination of museums and virtual simulation technology is still in its infancy. In the future, the Nankai University Museum will continue to explore along the path of digitalization and visualization of cultural relics, jointly study new directions, new models and new solutions for museum development, so that cultural relics can be "live" and museums can be "mobile"." (Cui Xinyao, Fu Kun)

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