Augmented Reality and Interactive Experience Design of the Emperor Qianlong’s San Xi Hall in the Palace Museum

Augmented reality technology has been widely used in museums. Visitors can combine virtual images and real scenes through AR glasses, which can enhance the sense of experience, and achieve immersive viewing and interaction. The research was mainly applied to the Palace Museum's official study, San Xi Hall, a small window room with a heated brick bed surrounded by various cultural relics. The virtual emperor is set in there and combined with the real scene to restore the scene of the entire study. Visitors can put their hands into the view of AR glasses and use gestures to interact with the virtual emperor and relics, and the vivid virtual emperor will be presented in a variety of interesting poses. One finger click on the relic can enter a new page to see more information. Rotate wrist at any angle, or pinch it between thumb and forefinger to zoom in, to see the details more clearly. Click the hat on his head, he will put the hat on the hat rack; Click his hand and he will start to pick up the brush of Chinese calligraphy and say “Let me show you Chinese calligraphy!”. It allows visitors to have a clearer understanding of relics in San Xi Hall, feel the daily study of Emperor Qianlong. It is a positive exploration and practice for the digital dissemination of traditional Chinese culture. And this interactive mode of immersive visits can be extended to all museums and galleries, which is a beneficial attempt.