Virtual Hang-gliding over Rio de Janeiro

Luciano Soares, Leonardo Nomura, Marcio Cabral, Lucas Dulley, Marcelo

Guimarães, Roseli Lopes, Marcelo Zuffo

Virtual Tourism

• Rio de Janeiro– Most famous city in

Brazil– Tourist places

• Corcovado• Sugar Loaf• Sambódromo• etc

• Safe

• Training

Apparatus

• The hang-glider

HMD

Tracker

Electrical Fan

Cluster & Jinx• Other project images

Modeling

• The model was created with Alias|wavefront Maya and then converted to X3D

Sound

• Ambient– Girl from Ipanema

• Located– Samba -> Carnival Parade Avenue

– Yells -> Soccer Stadium

People using

• Conference exhibition

Images that the user see

• Controlled fly

Future Work

• Flat or Spherical Screen

Thank you

Obrigado