Billboard reports PSY’s “Gangnam Style” video reached 1B views sometime after 10pm ET on Dec. 21, 2012.
http://po.st/v0OctZPSY’s “Gangnam Style” Reaches 1 Billion Views
Visualization of 19th Century Ship Routes from Publicly Available NOAA Data Set
Ben Schmidt, assistant professor of history at Northeastern University, has visualized the routes of 19th Century ships using publicly available dataset from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The resulting image is a hauntingly beautiful image that outlines the continents and highlights the trade winds.
SIMNET goes online in 1987
This is a video displaying the capabilities of SIMNET which was a multi-user military simulator that went online in 1987. A few interesting quotes from the latter half of the video should have you thinking about the future of virtual reality systems.
“…you’ll be able to create anything, from a synthetic battlefield to a synthetic factory, all using the same core technology.”
“Anything that you can conceive of can be put on a network.”
“…all the way down to the guy bringing lunch out to the troops.
Medieval Warfare in Low Gravity is Hilarious
rinoramp on YouTube educates us on the physics of the Dark Ages with a video game capture from Chivalry: Medieval Warfare.
ETSUcon A First Timer’s First Look
Recently, I had the chance to attend the debut of East Tennessee State University’s first anime convention ETSUcon. I am an avid video game player and I know much of geek…
Using VR To Cope With the Death of a Loved One
This use of VR is powerful, alarming, and hopeful. Our reality is about to be fundamentally altered by technologies that are arriving. We are neither prepared for the magnitude of the shift in consciousness nor can we fathom its ultimate final state. I hope we have the fortitude to know better than our predecessors and use these tools to find peace for one another.
We all love to play.
I came across a monastery in Burma a few years ago and had an opportunity to play soccer with some of the monks. Outside of Stephen Chow’s Shaolin Soccer, I…
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