An Era in Jinling: Game Interactive Heritage Digital Art Exhibition

Summary

The ‘An Era in Jinling’ Heritage Digital Art Exhibition, which focuses on the interactive virtual reality game environment created by the audience's experience, is an immersive digital art exhibition composed of the audience, the hardware system of the digital exhibition environment and the virtual digital environment presented. As a game-interactive immersive digital art exhibition in a heritage exhibition, it invites the audience to take a personal digital role in the exhibition and use the game-interactive method to enjoy an immersive digital exhibition. This paper aims to engage audiences through the ‘audience-centric’ exhibition of digital art, allowing them to use their senses to enjoy immersive exhibitions of digital art. This paper also demonstrates how digital art exhibitions of history can provide new insights to the general public in the preservation and exploration of cultural heritage.

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