Title: Implementation and evaluation of a mixed reality traditional craft sharing system

Authors: Reiya Yahada; Tomoyuki Ishida

Addresses: Graduate School of Engineering, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Fukuoka, Japan ' Faculty of Information Engineering, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Fukuoka, Japan

Abstract: In this study, we implemented a virtual traditional craft sharing system using MR technology in order to realise a highly realistic experience of traditional crafts and space sharing by multiple users in real space. This system consists of six functions: arrangement, delete, exchange, colour change, arrangement auxiliary and sharing of MR traditional craft object. The arrangement auxiliary function automatically arranges the MR traditional craft object in the real space by calculating its position, orientation and size. In addition, the sharing function realises sharing of MR traditional craft object among multiple users. Moreover, we conducted a questionnaire survey on 30 subjects to evaluate the MR traditional crafts sharing system. We obtained high evaluations of the system's operability, functionality, effectiveness and applicability. However, there were still issues related to the sense of immersion of our proposed system probably because the original texture of traditional crafts cannot be reproduced.

Keywords: mixed reality; virtual reality; sharing space; Japanese traditional crafts; tele-immersion.

DOI: 10.1504/IJGUC.2025.146282

International Journal of Grid and Utility Computing, 2025 Vol.16 No.3, pp.238 - 246

Received: 03 Feb 2023
Accepted: 19 May 2023
Published online: 15 May 2025 *

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