What it does
As a future cultural carrier, the virtual shrine utilises the psychological comfort of traditional culture in the home country to heal the psyche, relieve homesickness and loneliness in a foreign land, as well as to unite and pass on culture overseas.
Your inspiration
Due to studying abroad, I miss my hometown from time to time, and in the future globalised environment, the emotional health of migrants deserves attention, so I kept exploring the solution to migrants' emotions, found my hometown culture and used religion as an entry point, so that migrants can link their hometowns with a cultural carrier even in a foreign country, and thus feel a sense of security and not being alone, and then I kept exploring more multi-functional and emotional issues, and designed the the virtual shrine.
How it works
The virtual shrine is operated through a small touch screen in front and a display in the back, and is mainly inputted by voice. It can accomplish the following:1,It can display the holographic hovering image of the deity. You can freely switch or customise the image of the deity to perform various activities such as burning incense and worshiping Buddha. Virtual burning incense and paper is more sustainable and safe. 2,The virtual shrine has many AI functions. Such as psychological healing, fortune telling, virtual pets, faith tutors, dance teaching, AI education, ancestor ‘psychic’, holographic art decoration and other functions. 3, can communicate with global believers in the forum. Promote the common progress of religions at home and abroad.
Design process
The design process began with an in-depth study of the polytheistic immigrant community, which identified several core pain points: cultural disconnection due to the lack of overseas religious resources, the younger generation's questioning of traditional rituals, and the widening of intergenerational differences in beliefs and perceptions. Based on the definition of the contradiction between ‘traditional religious practice and modern sustainable needs’, the technology integration workshop dismantled the elements of the ceremony: the sense of sacredness needs to be realised through the levitation of the idol, the medium of incense, and the interaction of prayers, and then constructed a direction of innovation - replacing the physical shrine by a magnetic levitation holographic projection, virtualising the act of burning, and supported by the global polytheistic database. God image customisation. Producing virtual shrine devices that are now technologically permissible through 1-to-1 modelling and are user-tested. Final Iteration: Haptic feedback scripture cylinders are added and ritual sound effects are retained for traditionalist users, thus reducing religious lag through cutting-edge technology, facilitating transnational religious innovation
How it is different
The point of difference and innovation of my work is to make practical products through technology and innovative design to improve people's psychological and cultural problems.
Future plans
I have advanced the design, researched and presented a paper at the IEEE conference on the landing of holographic display technology for virtual shrines: ‘Design of Holographic Display System Based on Light Field Reconstruction’, the next step I will continue to research on the most cutting-edge technology and try to contact the technology The next step is to continue researching the cutting-edge technology and try to contact the technology holders, so as to improve the design details, apply for invention patents, and possibly start a business and commercialisation through this product.
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