• DocumentCode
    1362703
  • Title

    Virtual Reality in the Digital Olympic Museum

  • Author

    Pan, Zhigeng ; Chen, Wenzhi ; Zhang, Mingmin ; Liu, Jianfeng ; Wu, Gangshan

  • Author_Institution
    Zhejiang Univ., Hangzhou, China
  • Volume
    29
  • Issue
    5
  • fYear
    2009
  • Firstpage
    91
  • Lastpage
    95
  • Abstract
    This paper presents virtual reality in digital Olympic museum using animation and supporting cross-media information retrieval. The visitors use an avatar to navigate the DOM. DOM is a large-scale distributed 3D virtual environment for demonstrating the Olympics´ history, culture and highlights.
  • Keywords
    avatars; computer animation; exhibitions; human computer interaction; humanities; information retrieval; sport; Olympics culture; Olympics history; cross-media information retrieval; digital Olympic museum; distributed 3D virtual environment; virtual reality; Animation; Avatars; History; Information retrieval; Large-scale systems; Navigation; Virtual environment; Virtual reality; Olympics; digital museum; sports simulation; virtual environment; virtual reality;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Computer Graphics and Applications, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0272-1716
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MCG.2009.103
  • Filename
    5230471