New laser technology can excite air particles to create 3D images in “free space”. It really might be the beginnings of Star Wars style holographic display. From http://www.tvkim.com/watch/1520/kims-picks-3-d-images-in-thin-air

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Flash is dead!! Well almost, as soon as the 100,000s of actionscript programmers convert their stuff to HTML5. There are a lot of serious games written in Flash. It’ll be interesting to see them port to HTML5 and what ecosystems are created to support those efforts. A great HTML5 serious game engine would be appreciated.  [...]

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MIT’s Technology Review provides a quick overview of how EPIC’s UnReal game engine is used for serious games.

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Gamasutra has an interesting interview with Chris Hewitt and his new game Mindbloom. Work-Life balance is something we all struggle with–Mindbloom is a serious game focused on improving our overall well-being.   [A decade in AAA taught former Monolith EP Chris Hewitt about how challenging quality of life can be -- lessons he's applying to [...]

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Chatbot Duel

September 3, 2011 by

What happens when two chatbots are set loose to speak to one another? Watch the linked movie to find out…   [Link: www.i-programmer.info...]

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Euclideon claims to have built a point based graphics technology that can render a large number of objects in real time. Their video is impressive, but I’ll believe it when I see a demo on normal hardware.  If true, it could dramatically change the level of realism possible for medical simulation. We are typically restricted [...]

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Check out this pitch for Office 365–a parody of GMail. Amusing. I personally love my Gmail, especially augmented with MailPlane. I can’t wait to see if Google retaliates. Enjoy!

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