Virtual digital olympic museum

Virtual reality and the Olympic Games Museum are used to create a virtual digital Olympic museum (VDOM). This is available solely through the medium of digital technology. VDOM extends in a comprehensive way the main functionalities of the traditional physical Olympic museum. Thus virtual reality technologies and the Olympic Games motivate the researchers. Three characteristics, namely sports, humans, and entertainment/education, are crucial for the development of the VDOM. In developing the VDOM, the four major concerns were data storage and retrieval oriented to the Olympics task; modeling and rendering of the digital museum; the virtual demonstration of sports with virtual humans; and virtual reality based sports simulation. Appropriate solutions to these problems are proposed. Finally, a prototype of the VDOM using these technologies is demonstrated. This validates the efficiency of the proposed methods.