Indonesian Tin Museum Presents Virtual Reality Technology For Dredging Ships

Visitors to the Indonesian Tin Museum (MTI) Pangkalpinang while enjoying Virtual Reality (VR) technology for the Dredging Ships. (photo: Aprionist/ANTARA)

PANGKALPINANG- The Indonesian Tin Museum (MTI) in Pangkalpinang City, Bangka Belitung Islands Province, presents dredger virtual reality (VR) technology as an innovation to increase tourist visits to the first tin museum in Asia.

"With this technology, visitors using VR can feel a sensation like they are on a dredger," said the Head of MTI Pangkalpinang Taufik in Pangkalpinang, Saturday, March 11.

He said that through VR technology, visitors can browse various rooms in the dredger as a tool for tin mining at sea. The dredger shown is the Singkep 1 Dredger.

With this VR technology, users feel as if they are on a dredger in the middle of the ocean, choosing the room they visit, such as the wheelhouse, or meeting room, and seeing the tin production process carried out by the dredger.

"Currently there are only two VR tools, this is still limited because there are still two tools. But for a busy visit, usually, one person who uses VR can also watch on the television screen because these are interconnected," he said.

According to him, the presence of VR technology at MTI Pangkalpinang made visitors not only aware of the history and technology of tin mining. But you can feel directly seeing the mining process on the dredger.

"Currently there is only one video about the KK Singkep 1 dredger that can be watched, because this is also new in 2023. In the future we also plan to make more videos," he said.

Apart from presenting VR, MTI Pangkalpinang also has a mini studio. In this studio, visitors can watch various videos such as the process of tin mining on land and at sea, reclamation of PT Timah Tbk.

Currently, said Taufik, the enthusiasm of visitors coming to MTI Pangkalpinang is quite high. In one day MTI Pangkalpinang can be visited by hundreds of people such as students, tourists, and the general public.

"Entrance to MTI Pangkalpinang is free and MTI Pangkalpinang has become a place for outside-class learning for schools. So many students, from kindergarten to college students, come here," he said.