A Survey of an Adaptation of Non-Immersive Virtual Reality and Leap Motion Controller in Playing Kenong: A Cultural Preservation

This study explicitly discusses the alternative platform to learn and play Gamelan in preserving one of the unique cultural instruments in the archipelago. A Gamelan set commonly consists of seven instruments, but this study focused only on Kenong. Due to Kenong's limited mobility and accessibility, users must often attend physical lessons to practice. The kenong set is heavy and difficult to obtain because it must be customized and imported from different countries. As a result, this study proposed a Virtual Reality application for users to learn and practice Kenong. The Leap Motion Controller was utilized in the program to simulate the real Kenong experience. The ADDIE model is the approach used as a guideline to design and develop the Virtual Reality application. The System Usability Scale with an adjective rating scale is applied to the 113 respondents to measure the application's usability. The result shows that this application's usability is satisfactory and above the standard, which obtained 83.5%. Furthermore, more enhanced features are suggested in future work by including more songs and additional Gamelan instruments like Bonang.