If you have been to or watched the Olympic Games Paris 2024, you may have noticed that many venues are hosting events. Some of those venues are temporary, and many venues host multiple events. For this Olympic Games, digital twins were created to help model the venues before they were finished.
As a quick note, we took a bit more footage than we used in our main video, that you can find here:
We thought it was worth sharing. For all of these, we have to say that they are sponsored by Intel since Intel sponsored our trip.
Digital Twins at the Olympic Games Paris 2024
Several of the venues were created for the Olympic Games Paris 2024, such as the Paris Olympic Aquatic Centre, which was one of the permanent venues.
Others, such as the Opening Ceremony along the River Seine, were set up as temporary venues.
Paris also had existing venues, such as the Stade de France, where we did the Intel AI Platform Experience video.
There were other experiences around, such as the Olympic Cauldron.
These different venues were either scanned or had CAD images created and then brought into a virtual environment. Here, organizers could see things like the placement of vendors, security and ticket checkpoints, and so forth.
The venues could be simulated under different lighting conditions to see how they may look at night.
We were told these digital twins were made on Intel workstation CPUs and Intel Arc A770 GPUs. Once they were created, they ran on Intel Xeon cloud instances.
Final Words
One of the challenges with putting on an event like this is simply that Paris is a city that is bustling even before the first new or temporary venues are erected.
Having a digital twin of the venues before they are created allows organizers to simulate the environments before the venues exist.
Um, do not touch?