Virtual Tourism with Drones
Published 11 May 2015
David Mirk, Helmut Hlavacs
Citations27
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This work uses UAVs to fly around at the target venues, and send a video they record live to a tourist sitting at home, or walking in a treadmill, presented in a VR visor, and head movements steer the orientation of the drone.
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Tourism always involves physical movement between places, an activity that may be cumbersome, expensive, or even dangerous. Virtual tourism aims at reducing limitations by recreating real touristic venues in computers as 3D models. However, virtual tourism is always premade or prerecorded.
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Computer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences
Tourism ManagementVirtual reality: Applications and implications for tourism
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