posted 02-15- 02:55 PM               

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Today in school I tested one of those force-feedback 3D modelers where you with the help of a pen may carve in a computer model. Extremely fun, and what a great feeling! And then you could print out your creation on a 3D printer. Just awsome. It was so easy creating a nice looking landscape! Boy, if those tools were available more commercially today... what great terrains that could be made for flight sims!
Also played with some spheres (planets) in VR (only 3D glasses) where you used that force-feedback pen to get the feeling of the weights of the different spheres by spinning them around attached with a virtual rubber band (bungee chord?). Then you could release the band and see them flying away and after a while return back to a central sphere by gravity. It felt so real I couldn't believe it.

Also today tested a platform-moving car simulator where we drove racing games for an hour. Boy it was fun sitting in that car and feeling every force both through the wheel and the platform as well as a real gear shift (the platform was actually a real Volvo S80 cut to 1/4). I wish we had more labs like those ones in school! And yesterday we had a compulsory lesson about flight simulators were a fighter pilot from the airforce talked about their facilities and methods. So we're now invited to the JAS-39 Gripen training facility... He also searched some people that could do their final project on alternate HUD layouts and testing them in their simulators. Cool eh? Unfortunatly I have other things I want to do.

We've also had a lab in sound systems were they could make the sound source seem to come from anywhere in space. Was real scary when someone seemed to whisper in your ear and an insect was flying round your head although nothing was actually there. It was in a real cool room btw. A huge cube-like black room where a flexing grate of wires was in the vertical center serving as floor (so actually you were about three meters up in the air and hardly noticing what you were standing on). And you could also make some cool jumps because of the flexing... Furthermore on all four walls, the ceiling and the bottom below, were those usual cool looking half-meter sound absorbing cones. Looked real psycho. It would be so awsome having a party in there
In this class that all these events are from (it's called something like 'visual simulation for product development') we also have a project we're doing that when finished shall be presented in the CUBE system (an expensive VR solution) of our school. Which also was a real cool experience when I first tested it. Conclusion: I want the future to be here now! So many cool stuff awaiting!

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posted 02-15- 04:51 PM               

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yeah? Well, my old college has a decent football team! And... other good stuff too!

charm

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posted 02-16- 02:38 PM               

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Hehe... I didn't mean doing PR for my school as it's mostly rather boring actually. It's just that I'm so stoked about what cool stuff that exists out there that one doesn't know about. I mean, I've studied here for 5 years almost and hadn't even a clue there existed these kind of things, and certainly not a couple hundred meters from where I am every day...

football team eh...? Well, we've nothing to compete against you in that regard. Although I do know we have a hockey team that's not too good. Prefer snowboarding and sailing myself

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