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
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;
Journal_Title :
Computer Graphics and Applications, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MCG.2009.103
