VR Taiwan is an interactive Virtual Reality Workshop, entirely designed by Tamas Szvet as a practical application of his PhD research. The first book, published in 2021, focuses on Tainan city and contains detailed research on Virtual Reality and its potential in art education. The workshops are easy and fun, always tailored to the location and the audience. Participants use a worksheet designed by the artist, and after a guided drawing session, they load it into a VR headset, allowing them to step into the middle of their creation and see it in a 360-degree view.
VR 臺灣 是一個互動的虛擬現實工作坊，由塔馬斯·斯韋特 (Tamas Szvet) 完全設計，作為他的博士研究的實踐應用。第一本書於2021年出版，聚焦於台南市，包含對虛擬現實及其在藝術教育中潛力的詳細研究。工作坊簡單有趣，總是根據地點和觀眾量身定制。參加者將使用藝術家設計的工作表，在引導繪畫課程後，他們會將其上傳到VR眼鏡中，這使他們能夠置身於自己的創作中，並以360度全景觀看。
video documentation: VR DRAWING WORKSHOP by TAMAS SZVET｜VR繪圖工作坊 ｜湯明煦 26.07.2024 as part as the STEAM CAMP in the National Science and Technology Museum 國立科學工藝博物館 Kaohsiung TAIWAN
「真正的探索之旅，不在於造訪新的天地，而是擁有新的眼光。」 馬塞爾．普魯斯特 *
如果您喜歡臺灣、喜歡藝術，這本繪圖書就是為您所作的。它會帶您進入一段想像之旅，同時創造自己的虛擬實境，您的彩繪將變成一個場域，透過手機或是虛擬實境裝置，可以四處參觀，並真正地踏入其中。
這本刊物，是作者累積了長達十年的藝術研究，深入鑽研虛擬實境在藝術上作為教學工具的潛力，特別是當線上教學勢不可擋，疫情又隔離了彼此，我們需要找到創新的方式來連結。
這本繪圖書可以讓您感受到著色的愉悅，同時也享受科技的刺激，讓您減輕壓力，不再受限於固有的3D立體空間思維，一同敞開你的心靈，到有無限可能的世界旅行吧。
"The
only true voyage of discovery (…) would be not to visit strange
lands but to possess other eyes” Marcel Proust *
If you like Taiwan,
and the Arts, the VRTAIWAN drawing book is for you. It will allow you to take
an imaginary journey while creating your own Virtual Reality. Your colorful
drawings will become a sphere, and with your phone, or a VR headset, you will
be able to look around and actually step inside.
The
decade-long artistic research that led to this publication delves into the
artistic possibilities of Virtual Reality as a tool for education. Especially
when online learning is a necessity, and when a pandemic isolates us, we need
to find creative ways to connect.
While this drawing book can fill you with the joy of coloring, and at the same time engage you with the excitement of technology, it may also lower your stress, while allowing you to step out of your three-dimensional confines, open your mind, and travel to a world with unlimited possibilities.
* 馬塞爾．普魯斯特（Marcel Proust）: 追憶似水年華（Remembrance
of Things Past） [1913—1927] 第五卷, 女囚（The Captive） [1923], 第二章 "維爾迪蘭夫婦與夏呂斯的爭執The Verdurins Quarrel with M.
de Charlus" (1929 C. K. Scott Moncrieff 翻譯)
video documentation: VR DRAWING WORKSHOP led by Tamas Szvet臺南VR繪圖工作坊 匈牙利藝術家湯明煦Moriyama Market 2021 森山市集2021 in the Tainan City Art Museum Building 2, Tainan, TAIWAN
沉浸，是一種狀態，是實際感覺被空無環繞，抑或精神上深陷於某件事物，而這本練習書，將會帶給您這樣的體驗。接下來的內容，結合了VR虛擬實境科技創作出手繪圖畫，請準備好：一些色鉛筆、一支手機、還有最重要的―渴望創造和探索的心。
您可以將這本工作手冊，當作是單純的彩繪本，或是在這趟科技冒險的領悟之旅中，把它作為跳板。透過繪製圖畫，可以創作或再現出臺南獨特地標的全景圖，完成之後，用手機拍下繪製的圖畫，便可以透過手機畫面，以360度全景視野的模式開啟檔案觀看；或如果你有頭戴式VR虛擬實境的眼鏡裝置或可將手機置入的簡易式VR眼鏡，便可開始你的VR虛擬實境體驗。
著色本身就是很療癒的活動，可以讓心靈進入「流動」的狀態，過程中讓人體驗到沉澱和放鬆，選擇不同的顏色也能影響心情，常可以減輕我們的壓力或焦慮，讓人忙得很開心，又超級好玩，當然收穫也是豐富的，除了創作的美好之外，完成作品的成就感十足。
臺灣，雖然尚未受到公認，其實無論在發展或製作沉浸式互動的尖端科技上，都在全球名列前茅。同時，臺灣也正經歷手作藝術文化傳統的復興，這也就促使我們想將兩者融合，讓我們得以踏入自己的繪畫中。透過這樣的方式，藉由我們的記憶、我們的想像、以及最新的虛擬技術，重新發現並透過新的眼光，來看我們美麗的島國福爾摩沙。
這本能助您拓展視野的繪圖書，集結了作者累積十年的藝術研究，針對感知和各種視角所作的縝密分析，在這趟五彩繽紛的虛擬實境之旅，如果您對其背後的教育原理有興趣，可以在這本書的結論部分，找到相關更詳盡的研究，祝您有個很棒的體驗！You
may take this workshop manual as a simple coloring book, or utilize it as a
springboard for a fully realized technological adventure. By shading the
pictures, you can create or recreate a panoramic view of distinctive Tainan
landmarks. Once done, photograph them with your phone, then you will be able to
open them in a 360° view. If you have a VR headset, or a cardboard phone case,
you may also insert your device into the VR experience.
Coloring
itself has been proven to be a
therapeutic activity, letting the mind enter a state of “flow.” It can be
experienced as meditation or as relaxation. Choosing different colors can play on
our moods, often reducing our stress and anxiety. It is happy busyness, and serious
fun, which will surely lead to rewards; besides the wonder of creation, there
is the satisfaction of an artwork as an end-product.
It
is not well recognized yet, but Taiwan is among the leaders in developing and
producing cutting-edge immersive and interactive technologies. At the same
time, Taiwan is also experiencing a rebirth of its handmade artistic cultural
traditions. This logically leads us to the idea of merging the two, thus we can
step into our own drawings. In this
way, we can rediscover or see with new eyes our beautiful island nation of
Formosa using our memories, our imagination, and the latest virtual technology.
This
drawing book that can take you a step beyond is a result of ten years of
thoughtful artistic research about perception and ways of seeing. If you are
interested in the educational rationale behind your colorful VR journey, you
can find details of the research in the concluding pages of this book. I wish
you a wonderful trip!
Dr.
Tamas Szvet
video
documentation: VR DRAWING WORKSHOP by TAMAS SZVET｜VR繪圖工作坊 ｜湯明煦 09.08.2023 as part as the STEAM CAMP in the National Science
and Technology Museum 國立科學工藝博物館 Kaohsiung TAIWAN
video documentation: VR DRAWING WORKSHOP Yangmingshan Chungshan Hall / 陽明山中山樓 led by Tamas SZVET / 湯明煦 2022 Taipei, TAIWAN
video documentation: 虛擬實境創作坊 -
VIRTUAL REALITY MAKING WORKSHOP 湯明煦 (匈牙利) - Tamas Szvet 03.12.2022
(10am-13pm) 國立臺灣圖書館National Taiwan Library 組織者: 陽明山中山樓
Presented by the Yangmingshan Chungshan Hall, 台北，台灣 - Taipei, Taiwan
