Design and Development of Web and Unity3D WebGL Based Immersive Virtual Exhibition Application

Information Technologies have been significantly improved and affect human life in many aspects. One of the significant improvements is in 3D application technologies. This paper presents the development and implementation of 3D application technologies that can bring the real world to a virtual world, such as bringing the exhibition into a virtual exhibition that many people in many places can enjoy. The development focused on producing a web and Unity 3D WebGL-based application that can display exhibition objects in 3D and simplify creating virtual exhibitions. The reason for the development of the application is to accommodate exhibitions in the Pandemic era. Spiral model as an application development method was used in this development, and evaluation was conducted by using black-box testing and user interface evaluation. The result shows that both the application and 3D object run and are displayed smoothly.

I. Introduction

At the beginning of 2020, the world was hit by the Covid-19 pandemic. Covid-19 is a virus that attacks the human respiratory tract. Due to the easy and massive spread, many of concerts, seminars, and exhibitions were canceled[1]. One of the canceled concerts is the Hammersonic Music Festival which was supposed to be held in March 2020 which was finally rescheduled in 2021 due to the increasing number of Covid-19 cases in the Asian region. [2]. Another activity that was finally delayed was the Tokyo 2020 Olympics which was then held in 2021 with no visitors causing a 4.8% decline in the Japanese economy [3].