In January 1977, the French Situationist Guy Debord founded the Society for Strategic and Historical Games. The Society had an immediate goal: to produce the "Kriegspiel," a "game of war" that Debord had already designed in his head years before. Inspired by the military theory of Carl von Clausewitz and the European campaigns of Napoleon, Debord's game is a chess-variant played by two opposing players on a game board of 500 squares arranged in rows of 20 by 25 squares.
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Monday 28 April 2008
Kriegspiel - game of war
Friday 25 April 2008
McKinsey: ignore Second Life at your peril
Virtual worlds such as Second Life will become an indispensible business tool and vital to the strategy of any company intent on reaching out to the video-game generation, one of the world's leading consultancies has said.
McKinsey & Company, the management consulting firm whose observations about corporate behaviour are closely watched, said that virtual worlds were on the cusp of a major expansion - particularly as a way to reach younger customers - and that companies were "ignoring them at their peril."
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Disney's Virtual Worlds
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RoboCoaster
RoboCoaster are motion specialists in the field of entertainment, and have successfully applied many breakthrough technologies for advanced ride systems and services.
Home of the first passenger carrying industrial robot rides, RoboCoaster and its partners have developed some of the worlds most advanced ride solutions, ranging from compact Family Entertainment Centre systems to entire Theme Park solutions.
Whether it is a high capacity outdoor thrill ride, a state of the art dark ride, unbelievable show action systems, next generation motion theatres, or even motion picture robotic support services - RoboCoaster have an answer.
http://www.robocoaster.com/content/
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Thursday 24 April 2008
U.S. Spies Use Custom Videogames to Learn How to Think
In the wake of the intelligence bungles that propelled the United States into the Iraq war, it's no secret that the nation's spies have been working to improve the quality of their analysis. Now the top U.S. military intelligence agency has come up with a new tool for teaching recruits critical thinking skills: videogames.
The U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency has just taken delivery of three PC-based games, developed by simulation studio Visual Purple under a $2.6 million contract between the DIA and defense contractor Concurrent Technologies. The goal is to quickly train the next generation of spies to analyze complex issues like Islamic fundamentalism.
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Tuesday 22 April 2008
Podcasting in Plain English
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Mike Arrington speaks at Startup School 2008 about how to get, and how to respond to press for your startup.
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Friday 18 April 2008
War for Visual Computing
NVIDIA claims that the GPU is going to make waves into other forms of computing that just graphics: a market dubbed "visual computing" that encompasses things from 3D rendering to video encoding/decoding, scientific and medical simulations, finance, imaging and more. When NVIDIA first introduced the CUDA architecture in early 2007, it was meant for just this purpose: to bring the power of the highly-parallel GPU architecture to applications that can utilize its speed. Intel has spent it's time pushing ray tracer as the future of rendering (you can see articles from Intel's Daniel Pohl here at PC Perspective as well as interviews with top industry minds on the topic) while also saying that both discrete graphics and integrated graphics have a future pointing to its Larrabee for add-in cards and the Nehalem CPU with integrated GPU on die as examples.
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Thursday 17 April 2008
ExitReality Turns Social Network Profiles Into 3D Spaces
Exit Reality from Duncan Riley on Vimeo.
ExitReality promises to transform the social networking experience by offering virtual versions of every social network site profile.
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IBM Launches Pilot Program for Migrating to Macs
As further evidence of the growing interest in Macs among enterprise customers, IBM’s Research Information Services launched an internal pilot program designed to study the possibility of moving significant numbers of employees to the Mac platform. The study has already found an enthusiastic response from participants and is helping to drive Mac support for IBM’s business applications.
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Tuesday 15 April 2008
CyberCarpet opens way to Pompeii
A stroll around the ancient city of Pompeii will be made possible this week thanks to an omni-directional treadmill developed by European researchers.
The treadmill is a "motion platform" which gives the impression of "natural walking" in any direction.
The platform, called CyberCarpet, is made up of several belts which form an endless plane along two axes.
Scientists have combined the platform with a tracking system and virtual reality software recreating Pompeii.
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UK Mobile Broadband: Seems too good to be true. Isn’t.
I took Vodafone’s new 019 mobile broadband USB stick on a road trip and surfed for all I was worth. The press release promises up to 7.2Mbps downstream and 1.44Mbps upstream connections. Those speeds are respectively fourteen and twenty-two times faster than the original 3G service launched all those years ago in 2004.
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http://shop.vodafone.co.uk/index.cfm?go=dataproducts.MobileBroadband
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Monday 14 April 2008
Tony O'Driscoll - The Web 3Di singularity
http://wadatripp.wordpress.com/2008/04/04/the-i-web-singularity-redux/
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Nova Spivack is an entrepreneur, semantic web pioneer, and technology visionary.
A 5 minute video with Nova Spivack. In the interview he talks about the semantic web (putting meta data into data), the web is the database (linked data) and that Facebook will become a search engine. In ten years he expects reasoning will be online. Not Artificial Intelligence but assisting agents. He doesn't believe in AI.
Nova Spivack is an entrepreneur, semantic web pioneer, and technology visionary. He founded among other: EarthWeb in 1994 and Radar Networks in 2003. He is the grandson of Peter Drucker. Twine, his first semantic web product is out in beta from Radar Networks.
Learning from the Future with Nova Spivack from Maarten on Vimeo.
More about Nova Spivack
His wiki en.wikipedia.org/wiki/index.html?curid=15799945
His blog novaspivack.typepad.com/
His company Radar Networks radarnetworks.com/
Register for a beta account of Twine twine.com/?signup=true
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Wednesday 9 April 2008
OLPC’s Negroponte Responds to Intel’s Classmate 2 and New Low-Cost Laptops
The past few weeks have seen an influx of new low-cost laptops aimed at the education market. We compiled a full chart of over 10 systems, but official announcements of Intel’s Classmate or the CTL 2go PC and the HP Mini-Note confirm that the small notebook market is exploding with players.
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http://blog.laptopmag.com/low-cost-laptop-cheat-sheet
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Tuesday 8 April 2008
3Dconnexion intros SpaceNavigator 3D mouse for laptops - supports second life
http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/08/3dconnexion-intros-spacenavigator-3d-mouse-for-laptops/
http://www.3dconnexion.com/solutions/secondlife.php
http://www.3dconnexion.com/
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Mycosm® Your own 3D world, free.
Create your own unique world and share it with friends online. Play games, share media, chat, make money, all in breathtaking 3D graphics.
http://mycosm.com/
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Friday 4 April 2008
Gaming gets serious in the West Midlands (UK)
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Technical Architect Job: PIXELearning UK
Due to rapid growth, PIXELearning are seeking a Technical Architect. The role will involve working closely with the sales, learning/game designers, project managers, simulation modellers and internal and external development teams to ensure an efficacy of technical design and to ensure a smooth development rollout. Our clients include PWC, KPMG, Coca Cola, Comcast and HP and are being delivered in the UK, EU and US.
http://seriousgames.ning.com/forum/topic/show?id=630751%3ATopic%3A32762
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Thursday 3 April 2008
Project Manager Job - PIXELearning UK
Due to rapid growth, PIXELearning are seeking a highly organised individual to take on the role of internal Project Manager. The role will involve being the primary client, freelancer and supplier liaison across multiple projects. Our clients include PWC, KPMG, Coca Cola, Comcast and HP and are being delivered in the UK, EU and US.
http://seriousgames.ning.com/forum/topic/show?id=630751%3ATopic%3A32752
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David Wortley (sgi) - Interview
http://peie.blogspot.com/2008/04/one-on-one-with-david-wortley.html
http://www.seriousgamesinstitute.co.uk/
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Tuesday 1 April 2008
Interesting Technologies Emerge at O’Reilly’s Emerging Technology conference
http://en.oreilly.com/et2008/public/content/home
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