Preserving Riau’s Malay Culture Through Virtual Environment Application

Abstract

Abstract Riau Malay culture provides inspiration and guidance for the community. Malay culture that is based on religion provides many guidelines and advice for the community in acting. Unfortunately, the community is difficult to access Riau Malay cultural objects because of separated locations of each district in Riau Province. Additional factors, many Malay cultural objects have been damaged and lost. This research aims to develop a three-dimensional virtual environment application to facilitate community access in knowing and studying Riau’s Malay cultural objects. Starting from the initiation of the environment, making surface contours, creating environmental objects to the addition of cultural objects are the phases carried out in this study. The results of this study indicate that the application is very interesting and able to facilitate public access in knowing and preserving Riau’s Malay culture.