Olympic System
1 - Magic Carpet Ride
IMTC's first project was to develop an interactive tour of Atlanta
and its existing and planned Olympic venues. The system was designed
to be shown at Atlanta's official entry into the Olympic bid race
in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in September, 1989. The system allowed
International Olympic Committee (IOC) members to fly around the
city from the comfort of a hotel suite using a graphics computer
and a
wooden encased trackball. A map screen showed where the user was
in the city, and icons for each Olympic sport. A large video screen
showed aerial video of the user's current location. The user could "fly" into
icons representing the sports venues, and the video screen would
descend to earth and enter the facility. If the facility did not
yet exist, a 3D computer model of the venue would appear and the
user would fly into it. Maps, floorplans, and other textual information
on each venue was also available. The system served as a "virtual" bid
book, as each voting member could easily and quickly, and interactively
look up information pertinent to their questions. The system spent
the year after its premier traveling the world to wherever voting
IOC delegates met to help sell Atlanta to the world.
Olympic System 2 - Vision of the Village
IMTC and the Atlanta Organizing Committee decided that Atlanta
needed another high-tech sales tool for the final vote for the
Centennial
games, scheduled for Tokyo, in September, 1990. Tech's second Olympic
system took an up close and personal look at plans for Atlanta's
Olympics. The facilities as well as the hospitality were shown
in a high-tech theater using a surround interactive video system
developed
by Tech. The system was unveiled in the final days of the Olympic
bidding in Tokyo in 1990. Both Olympic systems were a collaboration
of a number of campus and industrial collaborators.
Olympic System 3 - Vision of Atlanta
The Tokyo system has been upgraded to contain information on
all of Georgia's Olympic sites. This system presents panoramic
views
of the city and state, with an opportunity to move through
the panoramas and select venues for more information. This system
is also a part
of the Georgia Resource Center, an economic development facility
for Georgia.
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Olympic Village Simulation
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Olympic Bid Video
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Olympic Bid CNN Report
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Images from the Olympic System
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