3D Virtual Reality Application with Design Approach for Introduction of Istano Basa Pagaruyung Tourist Attractions
Qadhli Jafar Adrian, Robby Rahmat Hidayat, Donaya Pasha, Anggita Septia Maharini, Muharman Lubis, Arif Ridho Lubis · 2023
This research is about the development of proper media for the tourist attraction, which in this case related to the Istano Basa Pagaruyung in order to increase the engagement during Covid-19 pandemic, which is the Android-based. It aims to produce interactivity and innovation product service by using Virtual Reality (VR) technology through design approach method as cognitive and practical process. For the purpose of testing, there are three aspects that were evaluated namely the functional conformity, the usability and the portability. In the first aspect, the results indicated almost 100% successful presentation, while the usability aspect provide the presentation value of 86.7% and the last aspects show zero errors result. Thus, it can conclude that the application can be one alternative solution to promote tourist attraction in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic in term of marketing or learning mechanism. It also presents the useful practice on the utilization of design approach that can be aligned with multimedia development life cycle (MDLC) to have non-linear and iterative process in order to redefine the problem for designing the alternative solution