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22 Nov 2006

NASA & SL

Published in Engineering, Simulation, Space, Technology  |  1 Comment

I’m a big fan of the acronyms NASA and SL and was really interested to read the article on NASA’s SecondLife Presentation of their work on Synthetic Worlds. (via Slashdot)

The details are fairly light, but it seems as though NASA is building a VR game on space exploration (remember Microsoft’s Space Simulator, or the free and open-source Orbiter?). I wonder why NASA is rebuilding their own engine rather then picking up and using existing simulators (like Open-SESSAME) on top of the Unreal graphics/physics engine.

I also wonder if, given their presentation venue in SL, if they are considering integration of their space simulator with SecondLife itself. Apparently right now it is possible in SL to have some sort of orbital platform. But imagine if they actually opened up Space Stations, or other planets/moons for exploration/colonization.

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  1. Taran Rampersad (Nobody Fugazi) says:

    November 22nd, 2006 at 5:45 pm (#)

    Thanks for the link.

    Yes, details are light but I imagine there are a lot of factors involved. For example, they may be making changes to the code that they do not want to share. A hint of that is with the quantum/Newton physics issues, among other things.

    Also, this is mainly for a prototype to show someone else… so a lot of things are expected to be done around the core.

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