Japan's National Museum of Nature and Science opened VR museum

Japan's National Museum of Nature and Science opened VR museum "THE WILDLIFE MUSEUM" to displaying 3D models of valuable stuffed mammals.

The stuffed mammals they carry are very popular, and the hall where they are exhibited is well received by many visitors. Most of these stuffed animals were donated to them by Watson T. Yoshimoto(1909～2004), a Japanese American businessman in Hawaii. There are about 400 of these, so all of them cannot be displayed, and they are usually kept in the specimen storage and are not open to the public.

Nowadays, they are also temporarily closed due to the coronavirus pandemic, and the popular stuffed animals' hall is closed. So they develop a VR museum on VR platform "STYLY" of Psychic VR Lab. The exterior of the VR Museum is a design that reproduces the “WILD LIFE MUSEUM” that Yoshimoto built in Hawaii at his own expense in 1992.

However, the inside of the VR Museum is a magnificent natural landscape, where 24 stuffed animals are displayed. The stuffed animals are made by 3D scanning and you can watch it from any angle. It would be fun to watch with a flashlight in night mode. This is a viewing method that is impossible in a real museum. Of course, captions are attached to each stuffed animal.

You can browse THE WILDLIFE MUSEUM on PC web browsers or VR head mounted displays (Oculus Rift · Rift S / HTC VIVE / Oculus Quest).