Seamless Entertainment in Virtual Museum Wanna play a shooting game in an authentic museum space?

We have been developing real-time 3DCG based virtual museums where a user can freely walk through. One of the problems with the virtual museums is that visitors tend to stay shorter and leave earlier. To solve this problem, we propose a new method of incorporating an entertainment element into the museums. The museum is divided into two modes: a normal walk-through viewing mode and a game mode, which allows a visitor to move seamlessly between the two modes in the same space. The virtual museum space can be used as it is, where a visitor can seamlessly transition to the games such as an adventure game and shooting game. If the user gets bored, they can immediately go back to viewing mode. This is a mutation of various amusement facilities in real museums. We implemented the above idea and will conduct the evaluation experiment and discuss its usefulness.