Tag: Simulation
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Wednesday Morning – Storytelling
I was in a number of sessions this morning, and a couple of them dealt with storytelling. The keynote of course (Digital Storytelling – Giving Purpose to Pixels – Joe Lambert) and Video Storytelling (Patricia Kougar-Melton). There is a is a really mass of people working with storytelling in some way, shape or form here.…
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Sim school (Melanie Zibit, David Gibson, Bill Halverson)
I decided to try to make notes for this conference on my phone and then use Bluetooth to send them over to the laptop for final prep before I post them online. It seems that even though it’s a bit slower, I’m taking down the important points, as opposed to everything when I’m typing. It’s…
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Dec05/Jan06 Innovate Online
The new edition of Innovate is online. This time around there are three interesting articles, the first (Carolyn Rude-Parkins, Karen Hughes Miller, Karen Ferguson and Robert Bauer) looks at the US Army’s implementation of games and simulations in their AC3-DL course for Captains. This is similar to the game Full Spectrum Warrior, where any “Joe…
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How to say what is so
With Xbox 360 released to the world earlier this week (and to me on “any other day”, not to be timed with US Thanksgiving), people are again being oohed and ahhed by the realism that this machine (and others) can create. Looking at the graphics in racing games like Project Gotham 3 or GT4 or…
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Wired- Game/Reality
Just an article that people may find interesting – My Dream Date With the Ford GT. He mentions how training in GT4 helped him on the real track. It’s likely what many other racers (from wannabes to pros) likely do as well. I remember during the ’88 Calgary Olympics, the Canadian Bobsled team trained with…