실감형미디어기반 불교의 열반 체험 VR콘텐츠 융합연구

Abstract

This study attempts to integrate the experience of Nirvana with VR contents. To do so, we conducted intensive research on meditation among several types of buddhist practice. This can be utilized as an effective tool for the experience of personal inner world. Virtual reality enables transcendence of time and space by segregating real world. First, we extracted the process of Nirvana by analyzing its causes to combine the concept of Nirvana into VR, and implemented this process into the design of contents. Then we inspected what's crucial for Nirvana and set stages to promote changes of inner self in VR. And we drew the similarities between the five aggregates of clinging and object awareness in VR space, making transition of consciousness via human senses. Finally, we defined the buddhist death, applied it as intermediate level, thus reaching the ultimate level of Nirvana. By this process, the user will experience buddhist death by controlling of senses, passing the levels of emptiness, vanity, trance and ignorance-breaking Nirvana. Our study has limit as it has not been proved via actual development. However, this attempt will help the design and making of buddhist VR contents of various concepts, enabling experience on buddhist culture that follows the fourth industrial revolution.