LEGIT Project: Preserving Bandung’s Historic Heritage In a Digital Metaverse

Bandung is a city full of historic sites and heritage buildings. Over time, many buildings that used to have high historical value have become tasteless with the flow of time. Therefore, this cultural heritage needs to be preserved. One is through the use of technological media, which is currently being carried out a lot, namely virtual reality or digital twin. Project LEGIT combines SMKN 1 Cimahi and PPTIK ITB, which aims to design a metaverse of Digital-Twin Bandung Raya. Later the 3D characters will meet each other in the virtual world. It will focus more on historic or iconic buildings from the city of Bandung itself. It used various tools from Blender 3D to create models of historical buildings in Bandung City, which will then be converted to Unity 3D. The result will be a metaverse world in which there are similarities with historical buildings in Bandung, such as the digital-twin concept in general, which has avatars that can be connected. This research focuses on the design process and preliminary experiment. The experiments have successfully modelled several historical buildings on Jalan Afrika-Asia as part of the Bandung Raya Digital-Twin Metaverse.