Heritage Museum Evolution: Virtual Realitizing Heritage Museums in Taiwan with An Exploratory Virtual Reality Museum Project

Aboriginal heritage museums in Taiwan have long faced a dilemma: they rely on tourism for financial support while also aiming to preserve their culture and heritage, safeguarding them from external cultural influences. The purpose of this research paper is to propose a solution that harnesses state-of-the-art Virtual Reality (VR) technology to virtual realitizing Taiwan's heritage museums. This approach aims to address, or significantly mitigate, the conflict, while simultaneously offering an immersive digital archiving experience and propagating the heritage and material culture through the virtual presence of VR museum users. Additionally, an exploratory VR heritage museum has been developed to serve as both an actual experiment and a preliminary assessment of the VR application's development.