A First-Person Perspective Virtual Tour

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A First-Person Perspective Virtual Tour

• Mike Lundy
• Tim Walsh
• Advisor Professor Mark Claypool

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Outline

• Motivation
• Research
• Implementation
• Prototype
• Results
• Further Work

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Motivation

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

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Research

• Static Media
• Catalogs
• Pamphlets
• Web Site
• Interactive Media
• Virtual Environments

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Implementation

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

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Implementation

• Support Code
• XML DTD
• Excel to XML
• XML to Python

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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

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Prototype
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Results

• User Study
• Survey
• Ten questions
• Three categories
• Distribution
• Email
• Flier

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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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Results
Pre Survey
Post Survey
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Further Work

• Improvements
• Overlay building names
• You are here to the map
• Scripted content
• Action Support

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Questions?