Peranakan Kitchen VR | Centre for Research-Creation in Digital Media, Sunway University

Centre for Research-Creation in Digital Media
The Centre seeks to be a cornerstone for transformative digital media research, scholarship,transcultural collaboration, metadesign and innovation to advance Sunway University onto the global new media-scape.

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Mission
1. To facilitate synergy in creative media arts and sciences, cultivating an innovative media research-creation environment
2. To create significant transdisciplinary collaborations and catalyse new partnerships with key local and international centres, labs and institutes
3. To motivate a new generation of students and researchers in the domain of creative digital media, merging core attributes of the arts,sciences, humanities, media and technology.

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Research
Area 1: Post-Digital Media Research-Creation. This research theme bears a special relationship to the<br> rest as the focus and overall direction for content creation is based on this theme.
Area 2: Digital Heritage and Culture. This research theme is explored with the components of high fidelity image and sound capture, processing, post-production re-presentation and high definition-immersive display.

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ON GOING PROJECT

Peranakan Kitchen VR

The Peranakan VR is a full immersive experience involving various socio-cultural virtual elements in form of a museum. The main objective being pursued in this research is to present the Peranakan culture through an 3-D immersive interactive visualization, by employing the currently available Virtual Reality tools and techniques. The Peranakan VR project forms an ongoing collaboratory between CRCDM (Sunway University), Institute of Ethnic Studies (National
University of Malaysia), and UNESCO. It will be shown internationally.

// HUMAN ESMAEIL // ERIC OLMEDO