Using Digital Extensions to Create New VR Museum Experiences

Abstract

The digitization of paintings enables us to do various modifications with them and also to add digital content that complements such artworks. In our research we investigate how such digital extensions can be used in a VR museum setup. This Creative Showcase demo presents a first implementation of such an "enhanced VR museum" based on initial results and related user feedback from earlier experiments. By using techniques such as "inpainting", "stylization" of objects or other visuals in the style of a painting, and by adding of content-related 3D animations we aim at creating VR museum techniques that provide a better experience by, for example, being more immersive, creating a higher emotional connection, or having an educational value.