RobertoOrtiz
02-23-2008, 01:58 PM
Wired.com visited the showroom floor at the Game Developers Conference to find the scientific back story to the machinery of fun.
From a force feedback vest for feeling patients from afar to virtual-reality caves that let engineers pinpoint oil reservoirs inside 3-D representations of geologic structures, it's clear that game technologies and real-world applications overlap more and more.
http://www.wired.com/gaming/gamingreviews/multimedia/2008/02/gdc_gallery_2 (http://www.wired.com/gaming/gamingreviews/multimedia/2008/02/gdc_gallery_2)
From a force feedback vest for feeling patients from afar to virtual-reality caves that let engineers pinpoint oil reservoirs inside 3-D representations of geologic structures, it's clear that game technologies and real-world applications overlap more and more.
http://www.wired.com/gaming/gamingreviews/multimedia/2008/02/gdc_gallery_2 (http://www.wired.com/gaming/gamingreviews/multimedia/2008/02/gdc_gallery_2)