New Boot Camp Tool: Xbox-Style 3D Video Games [Virtual world, not stereo 3D]
Does Uncle Sam need a few good gamers?
Sailors-to-be are jumping on a vessel to take control of floods, fires and massive casualties -- all while sitting in a computer lab or on a laptop in their bunks. The recruits say it's akin to playing a few rounds on their Xbox or Playstation; their instructors say they're learning.
Whatever you call it, just don't try to pry it from their hands.
“A lot of my shipmates loved it. We didn’t want to stop playing,” recruit Shaunna Edwards told FoxNews.com. Edwards said the game reminds her of the popular game Fallout 3, where the mission is to protect Washington, D.C., from a nuclear blow in a bleak and distant future.
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‘3-D Towers’ of Information Double Data Storage Areal Density
"Our new approach involves using bit-patterned media, which are made of arrays of physically separated magnetic nanodots, with each nanodot carrying one bit of information. To further extend the storage density, it's possible to increase the number of bits per dots by stacking several magnetic layers to obtain a multilevel magnetic recording device," explains Moritz.
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3D DOLPHINS FOR AUTISTIC CHILDREN
[3D graphics, not stereo 3D]
According to research by Noel Chia Kok Hwee (pictured), Assistant Professor at Singapore’s National Institute of Educaton (NIE), children with severe autism benefit from interactions with dolphins. Hence, he has embarked on a project to re-create these interactions virtually—with a 3D game on Micosoft’s Kinect.
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Creating Content for a Networked Culture
The expert panel will examine the impact video games and multiplayer participation have had on storytelling through examples of recent and upcoming film, TV, ARG and video game projects.
The super session is produced in partnership with Carnegie Mellon University and USC.
Henry Jenkins, Provost's Professor of Communication, Journalism and Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California and author of the book, "Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide," moderates.
As Jenkins puts it, transmedia entertainment is entertainment for a networked culture.
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The Rise of Generation C
We call them Generation C — connected, communicating, content-centric, computerized, community-oriented, always clicking. As a rule, they were born after 1990 and lived their adolescent years after 2000.
... This is the first generation that has never known any reality other than that defined and enabled by the Internet, mobile devices, and social networking.
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First picture and more details about the world first QLED Display
The Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology team showcase the world firstQuantom dot full color display.
QLED promise to be brighter and longer-lasting than OLEDs. What's more, they could be manufactured for less than half of what it costs to make LCD or OLED screens.
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3-D Models Created by a Cell Phone
Capturing an object in three dimensions needn't require the budget of Avatar. A new cell phone app developed by Microsoft researchers can be sufficient. The software uses overlapping snapshots to build a photo-realistic 3-D model that can be spun around and viewed from any angle.
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