AWARDS & EVENTS
Win at WiC 2016
UTAR's Centre of Immersive Technology and Creativity
(CITC) received a silver medal and a special award for their VR Malay
House Walkthrough project from the Korea Invention Academy at the 2nd
World Invention Innovation Contest (WiC) 2016 held in Chung Mu Art Hall,
Seoul, South Korea from 5 to 6 June 2016.
Aloysius Yapp and Lim
Chai Kim, the team behind the project, are both lecturers from the
Faculty of Creative Industries' (FCI) Department of Game Studies. They
said that their award-winning project carried significance in the
context of culture and heritage preservation by new media.
"Virtual Reality (VR) and Computer Generated Images (CGI) allow users to
interact and fully immerse in an environment," said Yapp. He created the
digital art and 3D models of the Malay houses. Using a game engine, Lim
programmed the assets created by Yapp into interactive components. The
team was also invited to join the World Invention Innovation Contest in
Toronto, Canada later this year