You'll need headphones for this to work. Make sure there is no noise around, close your eyes, turn the volume up a lil bit, hold and press headphone on your ears for better hearing, play it and enjoy this impressive audio work. Not a screamer not a prank!NOTE: I am not the maker of integrated original audio. Credit to me for converting into video and successfully uploading stereo quality clip at youtube. :pSee this wikipedia entry for information about binaural recordings. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B naural_recording
Virtual reality Sound Illusion called "Holophonic." Make sure to use headphones in a silent room (noise cancelling headphones works best) to get sound illusion. Close your eyes for the duration of the "Virtual Thunderstorm."
The state of Alabama has built a common operating picture, called "Virtual Alabama," which is shared by over 1,000 government agencies. Virtual Alabama uses Google Earth Enterprise, a secure version of Google Earth that agencies can run in their own data centers to build a globe with their own geospatial data.Find more information at http://earth.google.com/enterp ise/virtual_alabama.html
This is a live-action performance from the annual Carnegie Mellon University Entertainment Technology Center's ( http://www.etc.cmu.edu) Building Virtual Worlds Show. The performance is from December 6th, 2006, and students have TWO weeks to brainstorm, develop, and implement a virtual world, which in this case, was required of us to make an entertaining experience for a large audience.The performance is given in McConomy Auditorium in Carnegie Mellon, via the technology of the Playmotion ( http://www.playmotion.com). The playmotion is a motion sensor technology that receives data on the user's head and two hands.Members of the team include: Paul Capriolo (programmer), PaulCapriolo.com M.E. Chung (designer/props/fx), lizchung.com Carlos Pineda (audio/stage/script), pinedsman.com Jake Rheinfrank (artist), imagecubed.com
Many so-called enemy combatants are still held at the US military run detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, most of them never charged of any crime. January 11, 2008 marked the six-year anniversary of the arrival of prisoners at Guantánamo Bay. With a new administration next year, what will the US do with the remaining detainees? Draxtor Despres visited the virtual detention center in SL.
Dr. Tony O'Driscoll describes the 7 Sensibilities that Differentiate Virtual Social Worlds from other interactive media and makes the argument that these sensibilities provide us with unprecedented freedom to create true experential learning opportunities
This is an 8 minute cut from the 50 minute program focusing on the online gaming segments, and in particular, focusing on Nick Yee's responses.For more background information, please see: http://www.nickyee.com/cnn_fut re_summit.html