Descendant: Re-imagining Guangdong Embroidery and Folk Rituals through Digitization

Descendant advances cultural heritage digital conservation through a Guangdong embroidery case study. establishing a workflow that digitizes endangered the embroidery artifacts and related rituals via cross-platform integration of real-time tools: Blender, OpenXR-based VR, and WeChat. This integration bridges preservation and cultural storytelling—democratizing heritage revival for designers, enabling community memory-making, and establishing scalable digital-legacy frameworks. By reconfiguring ritual as computational material, Descendant demonstrates real-time systems’ potential to sustain cultural continuity.