Creating new museum experiences for virtual reality

Abstract

We present a pilot study investigating if and how we can create more engaging and improved user experiences in a virtual reality (VR) museum context. In particular, we used the so-called inpainting and artistic style algorithms to present different visualizations of paintings in a VR museum implementation. An experiment with 34 participants demonstrated the potential of this approach, especially among people usually not very interested in such art. It also highlighted possible issues to consider and directions for future research.