Virtual reality photography tour 360 degree panorama web using cubical stitching technique as media promotion Museum Hall of Fame Panggung Inohong

The aim of this research is to provide a promotional media for the Inohong stage museum hall of fame in the form of a virtual reality photography (VRP) tour of 360 views. The method used to build the 360 panorama is to use the cubical stitching mapping technique which utilizes overlapping areas in six combined photo objects. The research method used is a case study where the data collection method uses active observation techniques, interviews, and questionnaires. In addition to these 3 techniques, documentation is also carried out to collect photo data sources that will be used as input in the cubical stitching mapping process. Based on the results of web performance testing using gtmetrix.com tools, the page load is 6,2 s and average response time is 7,219 s. According standard issued by Jakon Nielsen in the Usability engineering book, the response time is within the normal limits of user flow so that users are not disturbed by information processing time, where the limit is 0,1 s – 10 s. On the loading section of the webpage according standard issued by gtmetrix.com maximum limit average page load time is 6.9 s while based on machmetric.com standard for business purposes the average is 8.7 s (USA) so in the term for load time 6,2 s, the VR photography is in the good category. In terms of usability testing that give to 5 respondents, 2 out of 5 respondents showed difficulties in using the existing guides and fast travel where the task completion time was more than >20 seconds. In this era of post covid-19 pandemic recovery and preparation for the metaverse era, web VR photography can provide information and real experiences of doing tours at the museum hall of fame Panggung Inohong virtually to prevent crowds and the potential for transmission of the covid-19 virus.