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NASA New Synthetic World Plans

posted by Satri on Wednesday November 22, @11:58AM        Permalink  Trackback URI  Slashdotthis  Diggthis  Del.icio.us
from the wind-of-virtually-synthetic-world dept.

Slashdot discuss new NASA plans for a synthetic world targeted for 2007. Their summary: "Daniel Laughlin, Project Manager for NASA's Learning Technologies Office spoke at the International Space Flight Museum in SecondLife and said that they are using the Unreal 3 Engine to create a synthetic world for training. The mission? The moon by 2020, and Mars by 2035. He said, 'We are combining the efforts of a commercial game developer, two universities and two NASA mission directorates into the project. If we can't check off all three boxes at the end, then we'll have done a poor job.'" My question: have they thought of integrating this work with NASA World Wind?

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  by Satri (3) on Wednesday November 22, @03:00PM (#1123)
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  ... are very interesting. A part of it [highearthorbit.com]: "The details are fairly light, but it seems as though NASA is building a VR game on space exploration (remember Microsoft’s Space Simulator [planetmic.com], or the free and open-source Orbiter [ucl.ac.uk]?). I wonder why NASA is rebuilding their own engine rather then picking up and using existing simulators (like Open-SESSAME [sf.net]) on top of the Unreal graphics/physics engine."