Conference proceeding
"This old digital city" one year later: experience gained, lessons learned, and future plans
Proceedings Seventh International Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia, pp.49-56
2001
DOI: 10.1109/VSMM.2001.969654
Abstract
At VSMM 2000, we described the creation of a not-quite-finished immersive interactive museum exhibit called "This Old Digital City" (TODC) The exhibit uses real-time interactive virtual environment technology to immerse visitors in a 3D reconstruction of turn-of-the-20/sup th/-century, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Museum patrons sit in and operate a "time machine" to freely explore a forty-nine square block region of the city modeled in high-resolution 3D graphics. As visitors tour the city, they, are able to access multimedia content associated with buildings and other historically, significant sites. We see TODC as an example of using high-end virtual environment technology as an interface to historical archives. The exhibit opened October 27, 2000, soon after VSMM 2000. In this paper, we discuss our experience with the exhibit and future plans for it.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- "This old digital city" one year later: experience gained, lessons learned, and future plans
- Creators
- J. Cremer - University of IowaJ. SeversonS. GeloJ. KearneyM. McDermott
- Resource Type
- Conference proceeding
- Publication Details
- Proceedings Seventh International Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia, pp.49-56
- DOI
- 10.1109/VSMM.2001.969654
- Publisher
- IEEE
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2001
- Academic Unit
- Nursing; Injury Prevention Research Center; Computer Science
- Record Identifier
- 9984383296902771
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