Virtual Artifact: Enhancing Museum Exhibit using 3D Virtual Reality

The museum is a place to learn the progress of human civilization. Various relics of history can are there to be studied. However, some objects cannot directly have explored. This is due to the fragility of these objects. Virtual Reality 3D technology enables the presentation in virtual form and can revive these objects in virtual space. We succeeded in developing a 3D visualization using virtual environment that has several objects of cultural heritage collections. Compiled in to a mobile application, it consists of relics collections from the late Majapahit kingdom, presented in the virtual form. The collections provided by Mpu Tantular museum in Sidoarjo East ava Indonesia. The museum visitors can navigate and explore the virtual environment having heritage objects. The presentation setup by mimicking the movement floating across the virtual environment. The ability to see in all directions is possible to give freedom of observation process. The Virtual Artifact application available in google apps and installed into a smartphone equipped with a built-in gyroscope and head-mounted display goggles.