Design of Virtual Reality Application for Taharah Using 3D Blender

Abstract

Taharah or purification is worship to God through cleaning some parts of the body with ablution and dry ablution or cleansing body from Najis or ritually unclean, such as small or big Hadas. Taharah is compulsory before pray and Tawaf. Moslem should understand the procedures of taharah. Now a days, taharah information is delivered through book, video compact disk (VCD) or websites. Taharah is not only knowledge but should be practice correctly. Therefore, this research aims to develop virtual reality application using 3D animation for learning Taharah, including ablution, dry ablution and cleaning ritually unclean. This application is using an Android operating system, 3D Blender modelling and unity for mobile device design. Furthermore, this application contains the Taharah theory and the rules. Moreover, this research makes a contribution by providing a virtual reality system of taharah based on 3D Blender. The testing result shows this application achieves 69.6% of effectiveness comparing to printing media for taharah learning media. The object testing is Moslem students with age of 11 years above.