Davey Jackson of Unity, who we had the pleasure of meeting at GameTech last month, has just posted about the 2012 Federal Virtual Worlds Challenge. Unity projects took home a combined $41,000 in prizes, including yours truly with a second place finish in the Holodeck category. Our entry was TerraViz, a 4D (time and space) visualization and collaboration tool. If you haven’t checked it out, we still have the FVWC entry page up here. Eric did a pretty nice write up of the competition in his blog post. (A word of caution: the download link...
read moreIn recent years, the U.S. military has consistently led government adoption of games and virtual worlds. From the wildly successful America’s Army, built on the Unreal engine and released on Steam, to recruitment efforts in Second Life, to a military simulator under development in CryEngine, the military and the Army in particular have shown a willingness to put their money where their soldiers are. Perhaps it’s a recognition that the private sector has been making a killing for decades selling war games, or a culture shift with...
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