Development of Interactive Virtual Tour Based on 360-Degree Panorama Technology at the Bandung City Museum

Abstract

Virtual tours have been widely used to introduce sites or buildings, but not much in education and tourism fields. The Covid-19 Pandemic has encouraged the growth of digitalization in all fields, including the development of museum virtual tours as an effort to provide visitor access among various restrictions. Along with these developments, the Bandung City Museum seeks to present an interesting museum virtual tour that can provide the best experience to its user. The purpose of this research is to find out the development and evaluation of an Interactive Virtual Tour Based On 360-Degree Panorama Technology At The Bandung City Museum. The research method used is Research and Development, with an analysis of potential and problems to improve the final product. The Virtual Tour allows users to navigate around the Museum building and listen to the narration, as well as read brief information about each object. For improvement, the virtual tour was also evaluated for usability by the users. Overall responses show that the virtual tour received positive feedback and was able to create satisfaction for the users, with several things to improve such as sound, images, and navigation quality.

Development of virtual tour reality using 360-degree panoramic images and Leaflet JavaScript

“…Virtual tours simulate a location based on reality using 360-degree panoramic photos (reality photography) [18]- [20]. The resulting place, such that the site resembles the virtual world, is a combination (stitching) of images and objects [21], [22]. VR photography is processed to allow users to interact directly with virtual places.…”