However, a statement said that an agreement to provide the tech to one of the agencies involved - the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) - was worth more than $10m (£6.3m).
IARPA will use the engine to build what it calls "Serious Games" (http://www.iarpa.gov/solicitations_sirius.html), designed to help intelligence analysts tackle instinctual biases that might colour their findings.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17535906 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17535906)
Cool. Let's hope it's put to good use and not wasted like so many other well-intended computer projects.
Extremely old news.......
Quote from: Smuckatelli on March 28, 2012, 04:26:09 PM
Extremely old news.......
OK, then...so is it working well or another waste of money?
Quote from: LongBlade on March 28, 2012, 05:31:33 PM
Quote from: Smuckatelli on March 28, 2012, 04:26:09 PM
Extremely old news.......
OK, then...so is it working well or another waste of money?
It was very sucessful:
http://www.tacticallanguage.com/
DARPA funded the initial effort in 2005, with these funds we purchased the unreal engine 2.5. Only problem is the baseline system is still.....unreal engine 2.5. The license costs $$$$$$$$$$ but the technology keeps on changing. We adjusted a little by making it plug into VBS-2 so it keeps the tech on line.
There is a quote from some Smuck back in 2007:
As Mr. Paul Nichols, a former Marine gunnery sergeant and program manager for TCLTS in the Marine Corps has observed: "If somebody's skeptical of the idea of a video game training soldiers and Marines, I'd just tell them to come down and watch how driven and immersed they get with the program."3http://alelo.com/files/SIMTECT07-experience_with_serious_games.pdf
^ I like the quote from the Gunnery Sergeant on the street.