Realidade virtual em arquivos: realidades possíveis

Abstract

Despite libraries, museums and archives have virtual environments such as: homepage, digital social networks, platforms, among others, for the dissemination of their products and services, they need to adapt and recreate environments and policies for access and use, producing technological structures, creating opportunities its users to explore its properties. Thus, the objective of the research was to present a prototype of virtual reality for archives, but during the pandemic access to archives was limited, gaining access to Fundação Casa de José Américo, which is a documentation center. Methodologically, we used exploratory, descriptive and explanatory research in terms of objectives. As for the procedures, we used bibliographic research and field research. The environments created for the use of these applications sought to simulate the reality and daily life of the user inserted in the physical file, in the real file, through a virtual environment from a virtual reality tour. We concluded that developing a prototype using the virtual reality tool for archiving, providing access to them, specifically the historical one of Fundação Casa de José Américo, in a safe way and maintaining care with the preservation of the collections used, is to provide people with a way access to the collections, obtaining information in an easier way, allowing navigation through the environments.