An evaluation of different strategies to represent performance in a tropical garden for immersive environments

Prior to its extensive redevelopment, the authors captured a tropical garden with significant cultural heritage and reconstructed it for immersive environments. Two approaches were employed; 360° video panorama recording and a photogrammetric capture as foundation for a complete 3D-reconstruction for VR. Common to both approaches, was the use of dancers as agents of user engagement and exploration. This paper evaluates the different methods of collecting the necessary data for each approach and their implementation of dancers in a cultural heritage context.Ministry of Education (MOE)Nanyang Technological UniversityPublished versionThe project has been kindly supported by an MOE grant in Singapore and by ADM, School of Art, Design and Media / NTU Singapore. The results would not have been possible without the diligent work of our research assistants Justin Cho and Mohamad Zaid Salihin Bin Zaihan. The performances were choreographed by Susan Sentler and executed by Tan Ling Lynn, Chua Pei Yun, Valerie Lim and Vasantha Tan