Malahat Virtual Reality Landscape Project

Lands & Environment and the VRLP team visited the two sites over a year to collect photographs across seasons of the site itself, along with native plants. These photos were used to develop highly detailed plant models and introduce seasonal variation across each site.

Malahat partnered with Camosun College to use the photographs of plants at each site to create hyper-realistic 3D models of plant species found at each site. This includes the first 3D model ever produced of Common Camas!

These plants are able to change through the seasons and will help build realism into each site so we can see how each area looks through the seasons

This involves the actual development of the sites! The VRLP team is carefully crafting each site so it feels like you're really there, and incorporating interactive elements like being able to pick plants to get more information, or key areas where stories can be heard.

Malahat Lands & Environment will work with Elders and Knowledge Keepers to determine what teachings, stories, and history is relevant and appropriate to share for each site. We will develop a script and create audio recordings that can be heard when a user is in the VR space to hear Elders' teachings while walking through each site.

Some interviews were conducted and a draft script created, more work is necessary to pull together community knowledge of each space.