Original Description:
The CyberDetroit VRML world takes you on a virtual tour through Detroit,
the automotive capital of the world. Take the people mover (Detroit's
transportation vehicle) and enjoy a visit to some of the leading automotive companies to witness how they are using Silicon Graphics technology to improve their product development and delivery process. Learn about crash simulation, VR based training, full design review, underhood airflow simulation and more. You can also visit our Autofact '97 booth in Detroit's Cobo Exhibition Center and get the latest information about the solutions offered by Silicon Graphics and its partners.
The CyberDetroit VRML world uses a number of innovative techniques. The
worlds were designed and built to be one continuous world where, on opening the door to the next world, you become immediately immersed in that world without experiencing the time penalty associated with loading in the next world. This was accomplished by preloading all the worlds up front, and switching the worlds on and off during the presentation. While this does
increase the preload time up front, as you go through the presentation,
the flow is not interrupted.
More than 3.9MB of textures were used to add realism to the worlds. Careful attention was paid to the lighting used so that the lighting from one
world does not spill into other worlds. 3d spatialized sounds were added
to punctuate the animation throughout the worlds.