This study proposes education on creating virtual art museums using metaverse technology to broaden the understanding of art museums. It investigates the effect of creating a virtual art museum using Roblox Studio, a metaverse platform, on the acquisition of knowledge about art museums, artists, and artworks and the ability to create metaverse content. This study selected the Moonshin Art Museum (MAM), the art museum to be created in the metaverse space, as its local cultural space. Fifteen students participated in a creation workshop to learn to create virtual spatial content using Roblox Studio and also visited an actual art museum. The students were then assigned to architecture, artwork, avatar, and content teams and collaborated with one another. To evaluate the activities, students filled out pre- and post-questionnaires containing items about the MAM, the sculptor Moonshin, and Moonshin’s artwork, as well as the ability to produce metaverse content. Findings showed that creating a virtual art museum through a metaverse platform facilitates the acquisition of spatial knowledge about art museums as well as information about artists and artworks. In addition, collaboration not only helped in the creation task but also identified and solved technical difficulties and improved creative abilities. These results suggest possibilities for using metaverse technology in delivering education regarding virtual art museums.

In 360-degree virtual reality (VR) videos, users possess increased freedom in terms of gaze movement. As a result, the users’ attention may not move according to the narrative intended by the director and miss out on important parts of the narrative of the 360-degree video. Therefore, it is necessary to study a directing technique that can attract user attention in 360-degree VR videos. In this study, we analyzed the directing elements that can attract users’ attention in a 360-degree VR video and developed a 360 VR eye-tracking system to investigate the effect of the attention-attracting elements on the user. Elements that can attract user attention were classified into five categories: object movement, hand gesture, GUI insertion, camera movement, and gaze angle variation. We developed a 360 VR eye-tracking system to analyze whether five attention-attracting elements influence the user’s attention. Based on the eye tracking system, an experiment was conducted to analyze whether the user’s attention moves according to the five attention-attracting elements. Based on the experimental results, it can be seen that ‘hand gesture’ attracted the second most attention shift of the subjects, and ‘GUI insertion’ induced the smallest shift of attention of the subjects.

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