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A First-Person Perspective Virtual Tour

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.

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A First-Person Perspective Virtual Tour

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  1. A First-Person Perspective Virtual Tour Mike Lundy Tim Walsh Advisor: Professor Mark Claypool

  2. Outline • Motivation • Research • Implementation • Prototype • Results • Further Work

  3. Motivation • Create a virtual tour application for students to learn about WPI. • Allow students who could not normally visit WPI to see the campus.

  4. Research • Static Media • Catalogs • Pamphlets • Web Site • Interactive Media • Virtual Environments

  5. Implementation • Game engine • Pyzzle • Custom Engine • Slides • Digital Pictures vs. Modeled Images

  6. Implementation • Support Code • XML DTD • Excel to XML • XML to Python

  7. 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

  8. Prototype

  9. Results • User Study • Survey • Ten questions • Three categories • Distribution • Email • Flier

  10. 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

  11. Results Pre Survey Post Survey

  12. Further Work • Improvements • Overlay building names • “You are here” to the map • Scripted content • Action Support

  13. Questions?

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