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Mobile Virtual Heritage Exploration with Heritage Hunt with a Case Study of George Town, Penang, Malaysia

Published:2011-10 Issue:4 Volume:2 Page:74-86
ISSN:1947-8585
Container-title:International Journal of E-Entrepreneurship and Innovation
language:en
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Author:

Tan Kiam Lam¹,Lim Chen Kim¹,Talib Abdullah Zawawi bin Haji¹

Affiliation:

1. Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia

Abstract

Computer games with fully intensive graphics are very common in desktop computers or game console, but the development of mobile games with intensive graphics are fairly new. With the advancement in mobile phone technology, it is possible to create a mobile game incorporates integrate the virtual reality techniques. In this paper, the authors present a virtual heritage application called M-Heritage Hunt that integrates virtual reality and game for mobile platforms. M-Heritage Hunt provides panoramic views of the heritage sites and a game background that is customized for the core of heritage zone of George Town, Penang in Malaysia. M-Heritage Hunt was evaluated and examined by letting the respondents to play the game in its proposed setting.

Publisher

IGI Global

Subject

Law,Management of Technology and Innovation,Business and International Management,Management Information Systems

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