PANGKALPINANG -- The Pangkalpinang Indonesian Tin Museum (MTI) continues to innovate to attract tourist visits to the first Tin Museum in Asia.
This year, MTI Pangkalpinang presents Virtual Reality (VR) technology. With this VR technology, visitors who use VR can feel the sensation of being on a dredger.
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 sea, choosing the room they visit, such as the wheelhouse, or meeting room, and seeing the tin production process carried out by the dredger.
Head of MTI Pangkalpinang, Taufik said that currently, they have two VR units that visitors can use. Through this VR technology, they want visitors to feel when they are in the Dredger.
"Currently there are only two VR devices, this is still limited because there are still two tools. But for a busy visit, usually, one person using VR can join in watching on the television screen because these are connected," said Taufik.
He said, with the presence of VR technology at MTI Pangkalpinang, visitors would not only know 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 where visitors can watch various videos such as the process of tin mining on land and at sea, and the 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," said Taufik. (**)
