I always felt like snow made the world quiet. In that twilight hour everything stops and the only thing you can hear is the soft fluffing of snow blanketing the ground.
Posted by Matt Scott
I always felt like snow made the world quiet. In that twilight hour everything stops and the only thing you can hear is the soft fluffing of snow blanketing the ground.
Posted by Matt Scott
Matt Scott is an experienced gamer, zombie survivalist, and lover of all things robot. He firmly believes that games are one of the ultimate ways to bring people together to learn, teach, and grow. You can follow him on Twitter
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As part of the new Halo 4 game release, 343 industries decided to tie in a live action series. There is a stigma that games translate poorly to non-interactive storytelling and for the most part that tends to be true. Games can take anywhere from 6-8 hours to play through, that’s not including RPGs which can consume 50-70 hours, or your whole life if it’s an MMO. Having to cram all that story into an hour and a half can be a bit daunting. Thankfully director Stewart Hendler and writers Todd Helbing and Aaron Helbing have been doing a weekly webseries that uses the Halo universe but tells a story we haven’t seen yet…
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.
Yeaaaah. Thought So. Misleading!
Holy jeez. Is that from this year?
No Azo, that’s from the Snowpocalypse DC got a couple of years ago. I don’t think my area has gotten even an inch in winter snow this year.