2018 WITSA Global ICT Excellence Awards Remote Immersive Experience Platform

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1 2018 WITSA Global ICT Excellence Awards Remote Immersive Experience Platform SECTOR: SUSTAINABLE GROWTH AWARD Remote Immersive Experience Platform, developed by Institute for Information Industry, leverages VR (Virtual Reality) technology as its base infrastructure and implementation. By combining remote VR design tools (Unity), VR devices (HTC Vive) and remote contents, we achieve immersive learning experience in an economic, energy-saving way. Without being onsite, one can get immersive learning experience in a single platform, this saves both energy and traffic cost. We select east Taitung county in Taiwan as our experiment site, which is in shortage of digital learning resources and with inconvenient traffic. This platform is widely used with school s off-campus teaching program, pre-travel experiencing of the travel spot, and remote learning adapted by local governmental and non-governmental organizations in Taitung. YOUR NOMINEE(S): Institute for Information Industry (III) is the Driving Force of Taiwan s Information Technology Industry Transformation. ( III was incorporated in 1979, through the joint efforts of public and private sectors, to support the development of information industry as well as information applications of each area in Taiwan. As one of the world s leading ICT innovators, III has about 1,800 dedicated professionals, more 1

one site, thus could greatly reduce energy consumption and carbon emission while traveling to the real spot.

2 than 75% of them have a Master s degree or PhD, and two thirds of them are focusing on technology research and development. REASONS FOR NOMINATION: The Remote Immersive Experience Platform is the first platform in Taiwan to maximize VR potential to bring remote things/events/scenes back to one site, thus could greatly reduce energy consumption and carbon emission while traveling to the real spot. This platform has been widely used in tourism and education, which is the main industry and service in our selected implementation spot, Taitung, Taiwan. The system architecture is illustrated below: Fig 1. System architecture of Remote Immersive Experience Platform 2

The Remote Immersive Experience Platform utilizes below Characteristics of VR technology: 1. Low power consumption hardware. 2. Remote update of the content. 3.

The user can access distant immersive experiences in one site As Fig.3 shown below, the boy is enjoying immersive canoe boating experience in his learning room. The Fig.

3 The Remote Immersive Experience Platform utilizes below Characteristics of VR technology: 1. Low power consumption hardware. 2. Remote update of the content. 3. One-site immersive experience, greatly reduces carbon emission during travel. 4. Invoke consciousness of local sustainable growth through educational VR contents Fig 2. The user can access distant immersive experiences in one site As Fig.3 shown below, the boy is enjoying immersive canoe boating experience in his learning room. The Fig.4 shows what he sees inside his VR HMD. This is a faraway boating place in a small island Orchid Island in Taitung county, which could be experienced in his school in Taitung 3

4 downtown. Because Taitung county expanses large area, one can save his travel time to experience the VR on one site first, and to determine whether to go deeply to the spot for the next time, thus greatly reduces environmental impact and carbon emission caused by distant travel. Here we adapt the HTC VR technology Vive, which has lighthouse technology to precisely detect the user s moving to bring highly-interactive experience in one single scene. For pre-processing, we combine both VR 360 recorder (Garmin VIRB) and modeling tools (Maya) to build the scene. The VR 360 environment provides realistic rendering and the 3D modeling objects provide interactive experiences. In software layer, we develop with game engine Unity to build and represent the original scene, which can be compatible to many devices, include PC (Vive), mobile phone (Android / ios) and other platforms. 4

5 Fig 3. The user experiences boating in an office Fig 4. The user gets immersive experiences on the platform 5

6 Fig 5. The experience is built with 360 recording, Unity and Maya Fig 6. The platform is combined with museums to develop pre-history experience 6

7 Fig 7. Process of producing the highly immersive experience Fig 8. The user can experience judgement process as well in his/her school 7

The platform contains following experiences, with different genres: Experiences 1.

Pre-history museum guiding experience 4.Fuli tourist guiding experience 5.

sustainable environment, like introducing a rare fish Cheilinus undulatus in Green Island

8 The platform contains following experiences, with different genres: Experiences 1.Green Island diving experience Screenshots 2.Orchid Island boating experience 3.Pre-history museum guiding experience 4.Fuli tourist guiding experience 5.Local court judging experience Some contents are made to invoke local consciousness of sustainable environment, like introducing a rare fish Cheilinus undulatus in Green Island Diving experience to prevent overkill, and help new resident in Taiwan(mainly from Vietnam) to experience the court judgement process in 8

$台東縣教育處 (Taitung County Government Education Department) 4. 台東大學資訊志工團 (TTU student information volunteer s club) \ Fig 9.$

9 Local court judging experience To spread our solution all over the Taitung county, we cooperate with both governmental and non-governmental organizations, school volunteers, and local communities. Some of the organizations we cooperate are as follows: 1. 台東縣移民署 (National Immigration Agency Taitung Station) 2. 國立史前文化博物館 (National Museum of Prehistory) 3. 台東縣教育處 (Taitung County Government Education Department) 4. 台東大學資訊志工團 (TTU student information volunteer s club) \ Fig 9. The VR Experience van cooperated with Taitung County Government to provide service to remote area 9

10 Fig 10. User enjoys distant scenery in VR Experience van Fig 11. Student enjoys distant island scenery during Off-campus teaching 10

11 Fig 12. Elders enjoy underwater diving experience in their community room Fig 13. Environmental education content is included in the VR experiences, an user watches a rare fish Cheilinus undulatus in Taiwan 11

12 Fig 14. An user learn to clean the marine garbage underwater 12

SUMMARY Considering that road transport is responsible for about 16% of man-made CO2 emissions, the Remote Immersive Experience Platform leverages VR potential of bringing remote

13 SUMMARY Considering that road transport is responsible for about 16% of man-made CO2 emissions, the Remote Immersive Experience Platform leverages VR potential of bringing remote experience/scenes/events to one site, thus greatly reduce carbon emission during travel. This platform is made with cross-platform hardware support (include mobile VR cardboard and HTC Vive), which could be widely used in many situations. From VR technology, we achieve immersive learning experience in an economic, energy-saving way. Fig 15. road transport is responsible for about 16% of man-made CO2 emissions (from OICA) 13

14 SUPPORTING INFORMATION: YouTube link of the platform demo: Green Island experience: 32X-6UJ5x1BulIy&t=10s&index=3 Pre-history museum experience: 6UJ5x1BulIy&t=17s&index=1 14

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