The First-Person VR System Augmenting Folklore Experiences

Folklore is an essential cultural asset that reflects the lifestyle and thoughts of ordinary people who lived in those days and each region's cultural climate. However, a decline in the number of storytellers and changes in lifestyle have decreased the opportunity to come in contact with folklore. This article proposes the VR system in which users can experience a folklore story using voice and gesture from the first-person viewpoint as a main character of the story. This article aims to clarify what user experience can be provided through interactions with the world of a story and multimodal interactions with characters in the story by means of voice interaction and gesture recognition.