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Project TypeIQP
Submission date2009-04-29
Authors
  • Hyungjoon Kim, BC
  • Justin Liu, CS
  • Patrick J Newell, CS
  • Steven Douglas Shidlovsky, CS
    • URNE-project-042909-134317
    DivisionHumanistic Studies of Technology
    SponsorHiggins Armory Museum
    TitleThe Virtual Armory: Virtual Jousting Simulator
    Advisor
  • Forgeng, Jeffrey L., HU
    • Availability unrestricted

    Abstract

    This project presents a sport of the past using current technologies to recreate the experience of jousting for visitors to the Higgins Armory Museum. Through collaboration with museum staff, intensive historical research, and a rigorous, iterative software development cycle, the project team developed a jousting simulation using technologies that incorporated Java, Flash, TCP/IP sockets, Bluetooth and XML. Nintendo Wii remotes, embedded in a lance stub and to horse reins, were also used to further simulate realism in the user-application interface.

    Files
  • IQPReport.pdf

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