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 moreAn informal group has convened at the local lunch place about once per month. Great discussion… Lots happening… Here is a quick summary of discussion topics. The Jibe discussions on Google Groups has some great links. Check out these examples of virtual worlds created by students to invoke specific emotions. The multi-user worlds were done using Jibe from the Reaction Grid on top of Unity3D, while the single-user examples were plain Unity3D. Check out Autodesk 123D. Totally unexpected offering from Autodesk — well designed and free!...
read moreAn informal group has convened at the local lunch place about once per month. Great discussion… Lots happening… Here is a quick summary of discussion topics. 1) Anders is using Avaya web.alive (http://www.avaya.com/usa/product/avaya-web-alive) for some of his weekly Train For Success and for private meetings. 2) Anders has a great line-up for the weekly Train For Success talks at 10:00am on Thursday. See http://www.facebook.com/TrainForSuccess for details 3) The serious game Fold-It (http://fold.it/) is making waves! We are going...
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