Selected Proposed Title

1.0       Title

 The Sabah Virtual Heritage Village (KadazanDusun Tribe)

2.0       Abstract

            This application is about the reconstruction of Sabah Heritage Village and to show how the tribe lives before. User can explore The Sabah Heritage Village virtually which consists of different traditional houses of the tribes that exist in Sabah.

Although this application is about a Heritage Village, it is mainly focus on the KadazanDusun Penampang tribe's lives and their traditional house.

            In this application, user can explore the re-construction of the KadazanDusun's house, experience and gain the knowledge of the way how the tribe lives. User are also able to explore the traditional houses of other tribes, but they will not be able to enter the house.

3.0       Target Audience

            The target audience for this application are from 13 years old until 25 years old.

4.0       Goal

            In this application, user are able to experience inside The Sabah Virtual Heritage Village which consist of different types of traditional houses from different tribes that exist in Sabah. Although there are many tribes in Sabah such as Bajau, Murut and many more, this application will focus more on the KadazanDusun Penampang tribes.

            As time goes by quickly, there are not many traditional houses left in Sabah. Thus, The Sabah Heritage Village was constructed outside of the Sabah Museum. This application is created not only to preserve The Sabah Heritage Village Virtually, but also enables user from other places to explore and gain knowledge about the tribes in Sabah and their traditional houses.

            Cultural Heritage can be preserve by reconstructing it into the virtual environment. In real life, cultural heritage may be missing or damage if it is not preserved well enough. By using virtual reality to enhance this project, not only can user understand better on what was going on long time ago but they are also able to experience how this tribe lives by going through the 3D interactive environment. Unlike books or photographs, user are not able to feel the experience and there will be no interactivity.

            As far as I have been doing my research on Sabah Heritage Village. I have yet to found any application doing the virtual heritage Sabah Heritage Village.

5.0       Objectives

1. Enable user to explore the Sabah Heritage Village Virtually

2. To let user to be immerse physically and mentally through sounds and visual in the application

3. To let user understand the different of each tribes and their houses

4. To allow user to understand how the tribes in Sabah lives
5. To preserve the cultural heritage of the Sabah through virtual reality application

6.0       Benchmark

Virtual Hadrian's Villa - Graphic

            This application was designed by IDIA Lab about the Villa of the Roman Emperor Hadrian. I'll be using this application as a benchmark for the graphic of my application.

Rumah Tukang Kahar - Environment

            This application shows the reconstruction of the Rumah Tukang Kahar and was designed by E-Warisan. I'll be using this application as a benchmark for the environment of my application.

Uruk - Artificial Intelligent (A.I) Behavior

            This application is a joint research between University of Western Sydney and Federation of American Scientists to re-create. In this application also shows the behavior of the Artificial Intelligent (A.I) Behavior. I'll be using this application as a benchmark for the A.I  Behavior of my application.

Digital Songline - Interactivity (Pop-up Info)

            This application shows the life of the urban indigenous peoples around australia and was funded by Australasian cooperative Research Centre for Interaction Design. I'll be using this application as a benchmark for the Interactivity (when moving close towards an object, a pop-up info will appear) of my application.

7.0       Description

Level 1

            In the first level, user will appear at the front entrance of The Sabah Virtual Heritage Village. User will then enter the village and they may also explore the environment inside which will have several other tribe houses. The only house that user can enter is the KadazanDusun house but they may also explore other tribe's houses which user will not be able to enter. 

            A signboard will be located at the front of each of the tribe's houses to let user know the name of the houses. Inside the KadazanDusun house, there will be musical instruments and traditional clothes arranged. There will be a living room which the music instrument will be located, two bedroom which the traditional clothes of the KadazanDusun's tribe will be located and a kitchen. User can interact with an object by moving closer to it and a pop-up box will appear to show user the information of the object. Once user finish exploring inside of the KadazanDusun's house, they will have to proceed to exit the house through the kitchen's door and user will be loaded to the second level of this application.

Level 2

            In the second level, user are able to experience how the KadazanDusun's live.

User will be loaded inside the living room and user will have to walk outside of the house. At the stair, there will be a female Non-Playable Character (NPC) standing. User will have to interact with the female NPC to get a quest which requires users to find a male NPC which is located near the paddy field. User can navigate through a mini map which is located at the top right of the application to find the paddy field.

            Along the way, user will be able to see the daily routine that KadazanDusun people do in their daily life such as ploughed the paddy field, hunting animals for food and more. Once user have found the male NPC, proceed to interact with him. The Male NPC will require user to find an item for him to work on the paddy field. After completing the quest, user may explore the village and observe what the villagers (NPC) do around the area. To go to the next level, user will have to go back and enter the house.

Level 3

            In the third level, user will appear at the stairs of the house. This final level will allow user to experience the traditional dance by the KadazanDusun's tribe. Before the dance starts user are required to help out the female NPC who is standing outside of the house to find her traditional cloth which is located inside the house in the bedroom. Upon finishing the quest, the dance will start.

8.0       Interaction

1. User will be using keyboard as an output. The WSAD key will allow user to move around.

2. Moving closer towards an object will trigger a pop-up which will show user an information about the object.

3. Moving into the particles in this application will allow user to proceed to the next level. In level 2, Particles will only appear after user have completed the quest.

4. Pressing the "E" button will allow user to interact with NPCs.