At a university in durham, they have turned a game into an educational fire drill simulator, ithe team used The Source Engine, the 3D game engine used to drive Half-Life 2, and created a virtual model of one of the university's departments.
They have planned the game so they can examine peoples behaviour towards a fire and to train people in good fire practice.
The interior of most buildings can be mimiced although modification will be needed.
Durham University's Dr Shamus Smith, who helped spearhead the project, told BBC News that that while bespoke 3D modelling software was available, modifying a video game was faster, more cost effective, and had better special effects
Wednesday, 4 February 2009
Facebook faces its fifth birthday
Facebook is giving its 150 million users a mystery virtual gift to celebrate its fifth birthday, The gift shop's presents usually range from cuddly bears to a pint of beer and from champagne to a four-leaf clover.
In the battle for online friends, Facebook is now the world leader, In the blog he has also taken a trip down memory lane and shared old images of how the site has changed since it was launched in 2004.
For a company that started in a dorm room, Facebook's rise has been regarded as impressive with its 150 million active users beating rival MySpace's 130 million users
Founder Mark Zuckerberg said, "In the spirit of celebrating connections between people, we encourage you to use this gift to give thanks to [those] you are connected with on Facebook."
In the battle for online friends, Facebook is now the world leader, In the blog he has also taken a trip down memory lane and shared old images of how the site has changed since it was launched in 2004.
For a company that started in a dorm room, Facebook's rise has been regarded as impressive with its 150 million active users beating rival MySpace's 130 million users
Founder Mark Zuckerberg said, "In the spirit of celebrating connections between people, we encourage you to use this gift to give thanks to [those] you are connected with on Facebook."
Monday, 26 January 2009
VIRTUAL LIFE
Creating an avatar that represents you has been available for years, its very popular with many people all over the world.
The use of technology has allowed inventers to go full blown on designing websites / games for people to play.
For example a very popular game all over the world is called WoW
WORLD OF WARCRAFT
This game is where you create a virtual character whether it be representing yourself or just some made up person, but you can make friends, and become addicted at the same time.
you have tasks to do or giant monsters to slay.
The creaters have made so much money out of this, but the game is based on a imaginary world, but most other virtual games are based on real life, so that when people make their own characters they can make there life how they want it.
The use of technology has allowed inventers to go full blown on designing websites / games for people to play.
For example a very popular game all over the world is called WoW
WORLD OF WARCRAFT
This game is where you create a virtual character whether it be representing yourself or just some made up person, but you can make friends, and become addicted at the same time.
you have tasks to do or giant monsters to slay.
The creaters have made so much money out of this, but the game is based on a imaginary world, but most other virtual games are based on real life, so that when people make their own characters they can make there life how they want it.
TOUCH MOBILES / IPODS.
The new touch iphone and ipod are rather popular now, they are the 'must have' item.
Smartphones were common before the iphone and ipod touch came out.
Its the way the phone and ipod is operated that makes it so much better.
Its great that the internet has become useable on a phone and a MP3 player.
IPHONE has many features, it allows you to use;
SMS
EMAIL
PHONECALLS
VOICEMAIL
GAMES
INTERNET
ETC.
you can get updates on weather/directions for journeys
all in one phone.
IPOD TOUCH you can get;
GAMES
EMAILS
INTERNET
NETWORKING COMMUNICATION
ETC.
because the ipod/ iphone have become so popular the phone industry is improving at a rather fast pace looking for better features.
Internet TV set to take over?
In the future, internet will be taking over TV sets, Real is now offering a mini memory stick which has hardware in it, which will allow you to plug it into the tv and lets you play videos you have on it.
You can save files like pictures, videos and music on a memory stick and then plug it into the tv, then it will allow you to watch them on the tv.
This new way of watching your personal memories and stuff is quite popular in china.
You can save files like pictures, videos and music on a memory stick and then plug it into the tv, then it will allow you to watch them on the tv.
This new way of watching your personal memories and stuff is quite popular in china.
Wednesday, 24 December 2008
Gadgets to keep you entertained
This christmas season , click team have tested some of the coolest gadgets around,
Sonos music system
Flip mino
Vuzix OLED video glasses
Sonos Music System
Once you have downloaded music onto your MP3 player,
you will find it hard to play it around the house,
but now Sonos music system will allow you to play it in several rooms,
just place a white box in each room and you can stream tracks wirelessly to
different rooms.
The wireless controller features a good-size colour screen and gives you access to all your music, and it is one of the few non-Apple things to feature a scroll wheel.
Flip Mino
Its a clever budget cam with 60 minutes of recording time.
While this is not the highest-spec camcorder around, it works well in low light and is certainly great for capturing short clips for sites such as YouTube.
it makes sense that the resolution is only 640 by 480, and the internal memory is 2GB.
Video Glasses
The Vuzix OLED Video glasses, plugging the glasses into a iPod and making yourself comfortable you will be pleasantly surprised by the quality of the image.
These are first video glasses to make use of OLED which is reflected in the superior quality of image they pump out (pretty good contrast ratio, which makes all the difference).
The only draw back is, well, you could not call these glasses stylish.
Sonos music system
Flip mino
Vuzix OLED video glasses
Sonos Music System
Once you have downloaded music onto your MP3 player,
you will find it hard to play it around the house,
but now Sonos music system will allow you to play it in several rooms,
just place a white box in each room and you can stream tracks wirelessly to
different rooms.
The wireless controller features a good-size colour screen and gives you access to all your music, and it is one of the few non-Apple things to feature a scroll wheel.
Flip Mino
Its a clever budget cam with 60 minutes of recording time.
While this is not the highest-spec camcorder around, it works well in low light and is certainly great for capturing short clips for sites such as YouTube.
it makes sense that the resolution is only 640 by 480, and the internal memory is 2GB.
Video Glasses
The Vuzix OLED Video glasses, plugging the glasses into a iPod and making yourself comfortable you will be pleasantly surprised by the quality of the image.
These are first video glasses to make use of OLED which is reflected in the superior quality of image they pump out (pretty good contrast ratio, which makes all the difference).
The only draw back is, well, you could not call these glasses stylish.
Monday, 8 December 2008
A bright future on display
Marc Cieslak the click reporter looks at the latest developments in display technology ,
Hes quest was to discover a better brighter and higher resolution display.
LCD and plasma screens quickly replacing CRT, many of the old televisions are going to the dump.
Organis light- emitting diodes (OLED) which have better pictures,lighter screens and lower power consumption
Sony is now launching the first commercial OLED screen, in december in japan and worldwide 2009.
OLED tv seen by click has a screen which is only 3mm thick, it doesnt need a backlight like a plasma and LCD which makes it energy effiecient.
Hes quest was to discover a better brighter and higher resolution display.
LCD and plasma screens quickly replacing CRT, many of the old televisions are going to the dump.
Organis light- emitting diodes (OLED) which have better pictures,lighter screens and lower power consumption
Sony is now launching the first commercial OLED screen, in december in japan and worldwide 2009.
OLED tv seen by click has a screen which is only 3mm thick, it doesnt need a backlight like a plasma and LCD which makes it energy effiecient.
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