An Evaluation of Different Strategies to Represent Performance in a Tropical Garden for Immersive Environments

Prior to its extensive redevelopment, the authors captured a tropical garden with significant cultural heritage and reconstructed it for immersive environments. Two approaches were employed; 360° video panorama recording and a photogrammetric capture as foundation for a complete 3D-reconstruction for VR. Common to both approaches, was the use of dancers as agents of user engagement and exploration. This paper evaluates the different methods of collecting the necessary data for each approach and their implementation of dancers in a cultural heritage context.

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Ross Williams

Benjamin Seide

Elke Reinhuber

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Publication date: July 2020

Publication date (Print): July 2020

Pages: 307-312

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[0001]ADM / NTU Singapore

81 Nanyang Drive #04-08, Singapore

[0002]ADM / NTU Singapore

81 Nanyang Drive #03-05, Singapore

[0003]ADM / NTU Singapore

81 Nanyang Drive #04-17, Singapore

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/EVA2020.56

SO-VID: b73fca44-1087-47fd-86a5-78d2dbb56cc7

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Conference name: Proceedings of EVA London 2020

Conference acronym: EVA 2020

Conference number: 30

Conference location: London

Conference date: 6th July – 9th July 2020

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: AI and the Arts: Artificial Imagination

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[1] P Bourke 2014 Automated 3D Model Reconstruction from Photographs International Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia (VSMM 2014), Hong Kong 9–12 December 2014 10.1109/VSMM.2014.7136644

[2] Conservation International 2017 Under the Canopy [VR reference, trees and gardens] livescience.com/57969-virtual-reality-film-explores-amazon.html/

[3] “Garden City” Vision Is Introduced; 11^thMay 1967 2019 eresources.nlb.gov.sg/history/events/a7fac49f-9c96-4030-8709-ce160c58d15c 1 April 2020

[4] Heavy Iron Studios 2017 Amazon Odysee [VR reference, trees and gardens] vrscout.com/news/rainforest-amazon-odyssey-vr-experience/

[5] Marshmallow Laser Feast 2016 In the Eyes of the Animal [VR reference, trees and gardens] intheeyesoftheanimal.com/

[6] Marshmallow Laser Feast 2016 Treehugger VR [VR reference, trees and gardens] treehuggervr.com/

[7] E ReinhuberB SeideR Williams 2018 The Scale of Immersion: Different audio-visual experiences exemplified by the 360° video Secret Detours. Electronic Visualisation and the Arts (EVA 2018) London, UK 9–13 July 2018 236 243 BCS London

[8] B SeideR WilliamsE Reinhuber 2020 Yunnan Garden VR – Recreation of a Tropical Garden as Virtual Cultural Heritage. XVIII. Culture and Computer Science – Extended Reality (KUI 2020) Schloss Köpenick, Germany, 14–15 May 2020, Unpublished Manuscript. Singapore Botanic Gardens 2020 whc.unesco.org/en/list/1483 1 April 2020

[9] S SkogstadK NymoenM Høvin 2011 Comparing Inertial and Optical MoCap Technologies for Synthesis Control Proceedings of the 8^th Sound and Music Computing Conference (SMC2011) Padova, Italy, 6–9 July 2011, 421–426. Zenodo, Genève

[10] J. K Steesen 2016 Tree VR, Catharsis and Re-Animated [VR reference, trees and gardens] jakobsteensen.com/#/tree-vr-rainforest-alliance-and-new-reality-co

[11] Urban Redevelopment Authority for Preservation of Monuments Board 1998 The Old Nanyang University Library and Administration Building, Memorial and Arch Preservation Guidelines – Guide Plans 2 The Board, Singapore

[12] M Zaccheus 2016 Heritage of Yunnan Garden ‘Spans Globe’ Straits Times 4 March 2016 straitstimes.com/singapore/heritage-of-yunnan-garden-spans-globe

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