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

Have a HTC Vive / SteamVR setup. For the installation process, check the manual.
Start Unity3D.
On the start screen click the Open button.
Select this repository.
Get yourself the backend.
Start the backend.
Feed the backend with an exhibition. If you want to make use of automatically generated coherent exhibitions, check out the Wiki.
Adjust the configuration file settings.json of VREP accordingly to your setup.
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

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