Project AEGIS

It would pretty goddamn neat if the work pioneered by the VARA team in 1995 ever became part of an effort to save the world...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/24/aussie_saves_earth_from_meteorite_collision_catastrophe/

Our IQP was a LARP module for the classroom which taught people how to cooperate and understand the different mindsets and motivations of the disparate global space agencies. It's been pretty continually updated and rerun at WPI many times in the last 13 years. Maybe someone will need to see something like that after 2011 to help build a model of agency cooperation should the need to avert Apophis arise.

Cool Idea Of The Day

Someone should make a Photosynth MYST-like adventure that people could walk through. One could basically make a series of photos that are "close enough" to each other to be stitched together creatively by photosynth, creating transitions from place to place in the game. I guess it's generally non-interactive at the moment, as you can't really affect anything in the "synthed" reality, but maybe you could set it up like a scavenger hunt (hidden clues and objects in high-resolution zoomable areas) and have it be part of a larger web-based game.

What do you think, Sol girls?? It'd be a huge hit, you'd totally get a bunch of Diggs and links, you could even make a YouTube video out of it. Maybe Autumn could do it with her landscape and sandscape and handscape pieces.

MMORPG Problems?

(In case you missed the post last night:)

I would like to conduct an informal survey with y'all.

Briefly describe the top 5 problems you have with MMORPGs. Stuff like griefing, et cetera. What are the 5 things that plague you most, or are your biggest pet peeves? You don't need to go into crazy detail; you could just say "gold farming" and if I need more elaboration, I can always ask...