The academic article that I have chosen to write about is “The Application of Virtual Reality in Music Teaching System” by Hong-Xuan Bian. This article discusses how an interactivity feature present in Virtual Reality Technology has helped improve upon the traditional way that students typically learn music. The reason that the tech was created in the first place is to help improve the efficiency of teaching music while also improving the quality of immersion from the Virtual Reality side. The way that the teaching from the VR headset was evaluated by a factor analysis. At the end of the experiment, the results indicated that the students had a great enthusiasm for autonomous learning. In addition, the efficiency at which the students learn has also greatly increased with the new Virtual Reality program.
This contributes to my project a little because it relates to the usage of music and virtual reality. While my project is more geared toward an album, this article focuses more on an educational aspect. However, this article also demonstrates that the application of music in a virtual reality setting can be beneficial to people and that most people don’t have any initial problems with using music in a VR headset.
The type of feedback that I received on my initial media was that the cover art photo was received very well and that I could focus on improving the text font so that it does not cover up the image. Other feedback I received was about the copyright and sampling used. The songs being used are all from people I know and therefore have permission to use. I will go through the instrumentals and edit out whatever copyright materials might be present. Another bit of feedback I received was asking about the elements of the project. So far the elements of it are original/alternative hip hop, album cover art, and visuals accompanied with each song.
Bian, H. X. (2016). Application of virtual reality in music teaching system. International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (Online), 11(11), 21.