a first-person perspective virtual tour
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A First-Person Perspective Virtual Tour. Mike Lundy Tim Walsh Advisor: Professor Mark Claypool. Outline. Motivation Research Implementation Prototype Results Further Work. Motivation. Create a virtual tour application for students to learn about WPI. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
A First-Person Perspective Virtual Tour
Mike LundyTim Walsh
Advisor: Professor Mark Claypool
Outline
• Motivation
• Research
• Implementation
• Prototype
• Results
• Further Work
Motivation
• Create a virtual tour application for students to learn about WPI.
• Allow students who could not normally visit WPI to see the campus.
Research
• Static Media– Catalogs– Pamphlets–Web Site
• Interactive Media– Virtual Environments
Implementation
• Game engine– Pyzzle– Custom Engine
• Slides– Digital Pictures vs. Modeled Images
Implementation
• Support Code– XML DTD– Excel to XML– XML to Python
Implementation
• Building Multiplatform Apps–Windows• xmingw
– Linux•LIBS=-Wl,-Bstatic -lSDL_image -lSDL -ltiff -ljpeg -lpng libglib-2.0.a -Wl,-Bdynamic -Wl,-rpath,/usr/lib -lpthread -lm -ldl -lX11 -lXext
Prototype
Results
• User Study– Survey• Ten questions• Three categories
– Distribution• Email• Flier
Results
• Demographics– No students– 7 people visited– 3 people had a tour
• 30 Responses– 4 people under 16– 8 people between 16 and 18– 2 people between 19 and 22– 16 people over 22
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Pre Survey Post Survey
Further Work
• Improvements– Overlay building names– “You are here” to the map– Scripted content– Action Support
Questions?