Kung fu star Bruce Lee’s last Hong Kong home to be recreated as a digital shrine for fans
- The Bruce Lee Club, set up by fans, is to bankroll the project spearheaded by three multimedia graduates
- It is hoped fans will be able to ‘visit’ the two-storey building for virtual tours, says Bruce Lee Club chairman Wong Yiu-keung
A club set up to honour the memory of kung fu film star Bruce Lee has teamed up with multimedia specialists to construct a digital recreation of his Hong Kong family home to help showcase his glittering career to fans around the world.
The Bruce Lee Club said the metaverse project would be launched on Wednesday – the 49th anniversary of the film legend’s sudden death in 1973 aged just 32.
The club said fans would be able to visit the two-storey home, which was demolished in 2019, through the use of virtual reality (VR) technology.
But the team behind the project said it was an uphill struggle to gather information on the house, which stood on Cumberland Road in Kowloon Tong and where Lee spent his last years with his family in the 1970s.
“There was very little information available regarding Lee’s house, especially the interior, said Owen Lee Chun-kit, who studied multimedia, VR and interactive technology at the Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education.
“Only one documentary made in the 70s gave us a glimpse, but it was hard to learn about the details of the actual house.”
