Designed for learning professionals and drawing on both game creators and instructional designers, Learning by Doing explains how to select, research, build, sell, deploy, and measure the right type of educational simulation for the right situation.

Like most edited collections of articles from authors of mixed backgrounds, what we get is something of a mixed bag. From the Half Life 2 review that feels a burning need to instruct the reader in the definition of a seesaw and how they operate in the playground, through to down to earth reviews of playing experiences such as World of Goo.

British Sky Broadcasting (Sky) is the operator of the UK's largest digital pay television platform. On weeknights they operate Sky Vegas. In September 2007 this service changed to become interactive, computer generated horseracing.

Where am I? Using Feature Cues for Navigation
The brain is built to handle such a 3D world, and employs a number of tricks to counter disorientation. These are tricks we can utilise in 3D spatial simulations, to help minimise disorientation there; but first we have to understand what the brain's tricks are, and how they operate.

At CHI 2009 (computer Human Interaction conference,) many new modalities of interface were demonstrated. One of the more practical was the product of a team from ETH Zurich's Wearable Computing lab. Vaguely resembling the bastard child of a set of safety glasses and a HMD, the EOG goggles are an eye movement tracking system, that requires no external hardware to operate.

AR Development > ARToolWorks (ARToolkit 4.4)
A version of ARToolkit has been released for use with the iPhone. Codenamed ARToolWorks, and based on ARToolkit version 4.4, it is slimmed down to operate on the reduced computing power of an iPhone when compared to a desktop PC.

C is one of the languages of choice for virtual world development. Clean, efficient, and quick, it does require a slight shift in paradigm from the BASIC collection.

Blogged Out: Snow Crash Mountain
A look at the growing push towards the metaverse, from a game development perspective, and at how social virtual worlds have to break away from the 'skills and levelling paradigm'.

Stratellites
To increase transmission speed (decreasing transmission delay) beyond that of low earth orbit, a different paradigm is required. A type of satellite which can survive in high atmosphere.

Why do a 3D mud?
A ten year old article, useful from a historical perspective, on one company?s justifications for first creating three dimensional gameworlds. At the time, there was a lot of industry resistance to the idea. So to it may be, for any other paradigm shifting idea which you plan perhaps, to launch.

(03/04/2010)
A new device from Dartmouth College lets users select and dial a contact's phone number just by thinking about it.

NeuroPhone was developed by assistant professor of computer science Tanzeem Choudhury, professor Andrew Campb...

(23/03/2007)
Birmingham's Heartlands Hospital in the UK in conjunction with firm Select Research have developed a 3D scanner that can accurately determine if a person is truly obese.

One human guinea pig who has tested the BVI scanner is...

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April 24 - April 28, 2006
Gyeongju, South Korea

This is the ninth IEEE Computer Society symposium dealing with the rapidly expanding field of object-oriented real-time distributed computing (ORC) technology. The princi...

(28/07/2005)
Japan has plans to start building a supercomputer next year that can operate 73 times faster than the world's fastest supercomputer, its government declaired on Monday.

Japan plans to develop a supercomputer that can operate...

(28/10/2009)
Modern offices may scorn the stuff, but paper has found a new use in the laboratory - as the basis for 3D models of tumours and damaged hearts.

Chemist George Whitesides and his colleagues at Harvard University reckon that th...