Immersive Virtual Environments at Saint Paul College.

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getting into the game

Posted Sun, 02/07/2010 - 21:26 by Pheej

Gametrailers.com is a great video game community for beginners and expert to interact with. There are interviews, upcoming games, surprise miscellaneous from fans, and most importantly Retrospective aka the past. I would like the group to take a look about War of Warcraft Retrospective.   

Webkit: Google Overtakes Apple

Posted Sun, 02/07/2010 - 11:43 by Josh

According to the Washington Post Google now contributes more to Webkit than Apple does.

Webkit is the open source browser engine that is used by Google Chrome, and Apple Safari.

Game Engines

Posted Sun, 02/07/2010 - 11:20 by Josh

The game development website called DevMaster.net has a listing of game engines, some of which are free, open source, or educational in nature.

Learning In the Multi User Virtual Environment

Posted Fri, 02/05/2010 - 15:43 by Josh

For an interesting look at the uses of immersive environments in education read: Multi-User Virtual Environments for Teaching and Learning, it gives some details about work done at Harvard University. 

Java Tutorial

Posted Fri, 02/05/2010 - 13:34 by Sue

I've started work on a Java tutorial - worked through the first module and all of the lab work associated with that module.   The tutorial supports PC's better than it does Mac's, so I had to install the JDK, NetBeans, and Firefox on two computers here so I can work on the tutorial without displacing other project members.   

Immersive Education Initiative

Posted Fri, 02/05/2010 - 10:59 by Josh

The Immersive Education Initiative Boston Summit is taking place on April 23-25 2010 at Boston College. Warren will be going to this and asked me to look into it. He'll probably want to bring a couple of us as well. Follow the link to read about what it is.

Project Wonderland Modules

Posted Fri, 02/05/2010 - 09:54 by Josh

Project Wonderland has a nice module warehouse that contains some modules that extend the functionality of the Wonderland environments.  I installed a couple and tested them out.  They seem to work fairly well without crashing Wonderland.

The city block module creates a repeating model of a city block so that a new city block is generated each time you reach the end of the city block model.