Interactive Virtual Aquarium

The Interactive Virtual Aquarium, which was designed by Media Lab of HKDI, is an interactive edutainment project with the aim of promoting sustainable seafood in Hong Kong. In our long-standing dining culture, seafood is one of the most greatest delicacy. Many foreign tourists would love to try the oriental cuisines when they come to Hong Kong. However, the surging demand on seafood will unavoidably bring heavy pressure to marine ecology. The species variety will also be seriously affected by overharvesting activities. To ensure that our dining culture could be sustainable and brought on to our next generation, we need to act smart and learn the importance of opting for sustainable seafood. The project uses the format of digital cinema to display over 40 fish species commonly found in Asia. Through interaction with the application, public can access information like fish name, form and size, commonly found period, and relative sustainable index, etc.

The interactive Virtual Aquarium is an application specially designed for International Culinary Institute (ICI). In the aspect of graphic design, it inherited from ICI architectural direction. It employs a variety of irregular geometric shapes as design element to reinterpret the dynamic beauty of fish swimming motion. Together with bright and colorful lighting effects, it brings audience a vivid yet visually unified undersea world.

In the technology aspect, Interactive Virtual Aquarium utilized multi-touch system. It allows maximum 4 users to visit the application simultaneously. Also, it applied HDR setting to render out high quality 4K motion images. Unlike previous generation display technology, HDR technology could provide content with wider colour gamut. It could mimic up to 80% of human visible light spectrum so that audience could gain a much enjoyable and immersive visual experience.