JI20/virtual-restitution

Virtual Reality Experience made in Unity aiming to restitute the context of african art pieces in western museums. # Virtual Restitution **Virtual Restitution** is an interactive Virtual Reality experience designed to critique the colonial display of African artifacts. By moving through digital space, the user participates in the symbolic "repatriation" of objects—shifting them from sterile museum vitrines back to their living, functional, and spiritual contexts. --- ## 📂 Table of Contents * The Experience: A Narrative of Return * Impressions * Technical Details * Installation & Setup * Features & Pipeline * VR Controls & Locomotion * Building the project * License & Attribution * Attributions --- ## 🏛️ The Experience: A Narrative of Return The experience is structured as a psychological and spatial journey through three distinct phases: * **The Sterile Void:** A cold, foggy museum room. Artifacts are trapped in glass boxes, stripped of their history, highlighting the "wrongness" of these objects in a Western gallery. * **The Archive & The Transit:** An overwhelming archive of inaccessible history leads to a shipping container. This serves as a "reverse passage"—symbolizing the physical return of the objects to their origins. * **Contextual Restoration:** The journey ends in a warm Ghanaian evening. In a traditional setting, characters emerge to use the artifacts, restoring their functional and spiritual life through light, sound, and communal harmony. --- ## 🖼️ Impressions | | | | | :---: | :---: | :---: | | | | | | | | | | | | | --- ## 🛠 Technical Details Virtual Restitution was developed using **Unity 6 (Version 6000.3.8f1)** and utilizes the **Universal Render Pipeline (URP)** to handle its lighting and atmospheric effects, integrated with **OpenXR** for virtual reality support. ### Installation & Setup > [!WARNING] > This repository uses **Git LFS** (Large File Storage) for high-resolution textures and 3D models. You must have Git LFS installed before cloning, otherwise, your assets will be broken. 1. Install Git LFS. 2. Run `git lfs insta …