Friday, July 24, 2009

Ubisoft shows R.U.S.E on Microsoft Surface at E3 2009

R.U.S.E is an upcoming real time strategy (RTS) game developed by Ubisoft for the Xbox360 and PS3.  At this year’s E3 conference, Ubisoft demonstrated the game on a Microsoft Surface table.

Space navigation looks rather complicated but I really like the way that military units are assigned positions and targets.

Related links:
http://gamerblips.dailyradar.com/story/ubisoft_reveals_ruse_surprise/

Friday, July 17, 2009

What would happen if the Earth stopped spinning?

A new post by the Applications Prototype Lab examines what would happen to the world’s oceans if the Earth stopped spinning.

What would happen if the Earth stopped spinning?

Monday, July 6, 2009

New Blog from ESRI’s Applications Prototype Lab

ESRI’s Applications Prototype Lab have just launched a blog which will showcase innovative proof-of-concepts and other interesting research.  Last month the lab released two videos of Surface applications, here and here.  Today the lab released eight new Surface videos here.

For more videos please visit the post here.