Rural Environmental Landscape Construction Based on Virtual Reality Technology

Bowen Sun, Yanan Jiang, Yanyan Liu, Xue Wu and Qiang Liu ()
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Bowen Sun: Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
Yanan Jiang: Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
Yanyan Liu: Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
Xue Wu: School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China
Qiang Liu: Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China

Sustainability, 2023, vol. 15, issue 23, 1-16

Abstract: With the recent shift in public aesthetics, tourism agriculture, which combines tourism with modern agriculture, has become a new and popular form of tourism, exhibiting great potential. Internationally, tourism is known as a sunrise industry that will never decline because the benefits and impact introduced by tourism are not only limited to the industry itself but also the development of other fields. It stimulates the labor force by creating job vacancies, consumption, economic benefits, and opportunities for the surrounding areas. Therefore, paying attention to the development of tourism and focusing on the trending frontier issues of the industry are of practical value to the development of social economy and culture. Traditional forms of tourism develop economic value by focusing on people’s direct experiences at specific times and places. However, this approach is somewhat limited by time and space constraints, preventing the full exploitation of the economic and cultural value of tourism landscapes. In contrast, modern rural tourism models based on virtual environment modeling and virtual reality technology can address this issue, enhancing the development of rural tourism industries. Virtual environment modeling designs specific spatial environments and simulates internal elements, providing authenticity to environments and a sense of reality using textures. Virtual reality technology goes further in creating highly realistic virtual environments that are generated by computers, encompassing visual, auditory, linguistic, force, tactile, motion, and olfactory elements, and enabling natural interactions between various sensory devices of the operator and the landscape model. The combination of these two approaches offers a broader scope and more nuanced physical and mental experiences for the rural tourism industry. This paper explores the optimization role of virtual environment and environmental landscape modeling based on virtual reality technology in designing rural tourism landscapes. It examines the specific elements of optimization within this type of technology and, using algorithms, demonstrates that these methods provide a 15.73% optimization rate in the sightseeing process compared to traditional tourism models, making them widely applicable in the design of rural tourism landscape environments.

Keywords: virtual reality technology; the country; agricultural sightseeing; environmental landscape construction (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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