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Games
fromEngadget
6 days ago

BOXROOM lets you build a cozy game room for your Steam library

Customize a virtual space to showcase your game library with personalized furniture and game displays.
fromSlicker
1 week ago

Basic Physics Engine in about 100 lines of pure JavaScript

The Vec class implements 2D vectors, providing essential operations like addition, subtraction, scaling, and normalization, which are fundamental for all geometric calculations in the simulation.
Vue
Philosophy
fromApaonline
1 week ago

Recently Published Book Spotlight: Aesthetics and Video Games

Video games possess unique aesthetic value that challenges traditional philosophical frameworks of games and fiction.
fromwww.bbc.com
1 week ago

Football Manager gamer helps team win in real life

Kendrick suggested a formation change to 4-4-2, inspired by his online team and football manager Sean Dyche, leading to a 3-2 victory for KPR.
Liverpool FC
fromYanko Design - Modern Industrial Design News
1 week ago

Formula Pro simulator with ultra-realistic controls emulates F1 racing fun in your living room - Yanko Design

The professional-grade simulator has a precision-designed cockpit and race seat to recreate the realism of FPV in the single-seater racer. To simulate the nuances of a Formula -1 car riding the tarmac, the simulator has a high-torque force feedback steering and a Leo Bodnar SimSteering 2 base.
Cars
fromVulture
1 week ago

The Sims Creator's Audacious Quest to Turn His (and Your) Mind Into a Video Game

"It was like quicksand," he said. His father came around the corner in time to see his arms poking up above the rim, a cartoon character in need of rescue. "I could easily have died."
Games
Arts
fromThe Art Newspaper - International art news and events
2 weeks ago

New book shows why physical maps have an important role to play in our digital world

A cartography professor discovered 96 historically significant maps in a forgotten university archive, revealing cartography's vital role in preserving sociopolitical memory and demonstrating maps' importance beyond navigation.
fromNature
3 weeks ago

How the classic computer game Doom became a tool for science

Last month, scientists in Australia reported that they had taught neurons grown on a silicon chip how to play the game. The phrases 'Can it run Doom?' and 'It runs Doom' have become a popular Internet meme.
OMG science
Science
fromNature
3 weeks ago

Daily briefing: 'Virtual cell' simulates nearly every chemical reaction in the real thing

Researchers created a 3D virtual bacterial cell simulation modeling DNA replication, cell division, and chemical reactions to understand how molecular interactions generate life.
Online learning
fromeLearning
2 weeks ago

Building Realistic Software Simulations with Enhanced Shapes in Adobe Captivate - eLearning

Adobe Captivate records software actions and converts them into interactive eLearning courses with three modes: Demo for viewing, Training for practicing, and Assessment for testing.
Design
fromArchDaily
3 weeks ago

Facing the Age of Robots? Material Innovation in Architectural Structures

Robotic technology in construction extends beyond automation and cost reduction to fundamentally reshape architectural design, material experimentation, and construction methodologies through collaborative human-robot workflows.
Games
from48 hills
2 weeks ago

Is AI gaming ready for primetime? - 48 hills

Google demonstrated live AI-generated NPC dialogue at GDC 2026, with over 60 AI-related talks and events showcasing the gaming industry's focus on artificial intelligence integration.
Artificial intelligence
fromKotaku
4 weeks ago

Take AI's Job And Respond To Real Prompts In New Game

A browser game called 'your ai slop bores me' lets players role-play as AI to answer questions and earn tokens, reversing the typical AI-human dynamic by having humans provide hastily-rendered advice to other players.
Games
fromKotaku
3 weeks ago

15 Incredible Indie Games Made Computer Worlds A Must-Watch

Computer Worlds is a new showcase celebrating innovative indie games, featuring 15 trailers and 16 released titles to highlight unique games struggling for visibility in a risk-averse market.
Mission District
fromMedium
1 month ago

What is teleoperation?

Autonomous vehicles require invisible design infrastructure beyond sensors and algorithms to handle real-world complexity and edge cases at scale.
Video games
fromBusiness Insider
1 month ago

I tried 'Data Center,' a new game that makes you boss of your own compute farm. I failed miserably.

Data Center is a detailed PC simulator game about managing data center operations, offering an authentic but complex experience of the industry.
Video games
fromSustainable Bus
1 month ago

Bus Simulator 27 adds Solaris to its licensed bus roster

Bus Simulator 27 features over 45 officially licensed vehicles from 13 manufacturers including Solaris, offering diverse bus types and propulsion technologies for players to drive and manage.
Artificial intelligence
fromArchDaily
1 month ago

Beyond the Render: How AI Is Restructuring Architectural Documentation

Invisible, repetitive technical work—specification, detailing, and documentation—sustains buildable, safe architecture and AI can assist by organizing and interpreting this documentation.
UX design
fromMedium
2 months ago

Spatial vibe coding: prototyping immersive reality with AI

AI-driven vibe coding enables rapid prototyping of spatial XR experiences, producing functional 3D canvases with WebXR, frameworks, and production-ready toolchains.
Education
fromeLearning Industry
2 months ago

Bringing Immersive Technologies Into Workforce Training

Immersive technologies (VR, AR, MR) provide safer, hands-on, data-driven training that accelerates practical skill acquisition and improves manufacturing workforce performance.
Tech industry
fromTheregister
2 months ago

Knee-Deep in the CAD: Doom runs inside a design modeler

Doom runs inside the OpenSCAD CAD modeler using a custom Python engine and OpenSCAD animation mode, achieving playable 10–20 FPS block-color rendering.
UX design
fromComputerWeekly.com
2 months ago

Expanding sensory experiences in virtual environments | Computer Weekly

Comprehensively multisensory XR/IRL environments enable inclusive, immersive interactions by combining multiple sensory interfaces, but face technical, cost, and adoption hurdles.
Education
fromeLearning Industry
2 months ago

The Power Of Virtual Reality In Corporate Training

Virtual Reality training improves skill retention, confidence, scalability, and measurable ROI by immersing employees in realistic, risk-free practice environments.
Video games
fromArs Technica
1 month ago

No humans allowed: This new space-based MMO is designed exclusively for AI agents

Autonomous AI agents in SpaceMolt operate independently, share strategy publicly, and the developer relies on AI to generate and patch the game's code while humans merely observe.
fromFast Company
1 month ago

Are we living in a simulation?

How do you know anything is real? Some things you can see directly, like your fingers. Other things, like your chin, you need a mirror or a camera to see. Other things can't be seen, but you believe in them because a parent or a teacher told you, or you read it in a book. As a physicist, I use sensitive scientific instruments and complicated math to try to figure out what's real and what's not.
Philosophy
Online learning
fromeLearning Industry
2 months ago

What Moving A Classroom To An Online Simulation Taught Us About Learning

Online simulations succeed when they embed authentic consequences and timely feedback, rather than relying on replicated in-person explanations and visible real-time signals.
Artificial intelligence
fromwww.scientificamerican.com
1 month ago

How one chemist is using AI and robots to automate lab experiments

AI-driven laboratory automation like Coscientist accelerates chemistry by reducing repetitive work, improving accuracy, and enabling experiments previously limited by human error or fatigue.
fromeLearning Industry
2 months ago

Utilizing VR And AR In High-Risk Scenarios For Manufacturing Training

Manufacturing environments are becoming more advanced, automated, and electrified-but they are also becoming more dangerous. High-voltage (HV) systems, robotics, advanced machinery, and tightly coupled production lines introduce risks that traditional training methods are no longer equipped to address effectively. Instructor-led classroom training, PDFs, videos, and even supervised shadowing have long been the foundation of manufacturing training. However, when the consequences of error include severe injury, fatal accidents, equipment damage, or production downtime,
Education
Video games
fromThe Verge
1 month ago

AI can't make good video game worlds yet, and it might never be able to

Early generative AI tools for games produce repetitive, lower-quality content and are unlikely to match top human-designed game experiences soon.
fromwww.scientificamerican.com
1 month ago

The mathematical mystery inside the legendary '90s shooter Quake 3

Because they had extremely limited computing power, they had to write their code as efficiently as possible. Consider the first-person shooter Quake III Arena, usually called Quake 3, for example: players navigated a three-dimensional world, so the programmers had to find the cleverest ways to handle 3D graphics and the associated calculations. Quake 3 released in 1999 and is considered one of the best computer games of its time.
Video games
fromMedium
1 month ago

AI's text-trap: Moving towards a more interactive future

LLMs have made AI assistants a standard feature across SaaS. AI assistants allow users to instantly retrieve information and interact with a system through text-based prompts. Mathias Biilmann, in his article " Introducing AX: Why Agent Experience Matters," discusses two distinct approaches to building AI assistants. The Closed Approach involves a conversational assistant embedded directly within a single SaaS product. Examples include Zoom's AI Companion, Salesforce CRM's Einstein, and Microsoft's Copilot. The Open Approach involves external conversational assistants, such as Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini,
Artificial intelligence
fromEngadget
2 months ago

Google's Project Genie lets you generate your own interactive worlds

This past summer, Google DeepMind debuted Genie 3. It's what's known as a world world, an AI system capable of generating images and reacting as the user moves through the environment the software is simulating. At the time, DeepMind positioned Genie 3 as a tool for training AI agents. Now, it's making the model available to people outside of Google to try with Project Genie.
Artificial intelligence
Video games
fromThe Verge
1 month ago

Roblox calls its take on AI world models 'real-time dreaming'

Roblox plans to use AI world models and prompts for "real-time dreaming" to generate and modify interactive 3D experiences in real time.
fromFlowingData
2 months ago

IsoCity, an open source city building game

If you're a fan of SimCity, then you'll appreciate IsoCity, an open source simulation game. The premise is the same. Start with land, build infrastructure, and try to maintain a thriving city. From the GitHub: IsoCity is a open-source isometric city-building simulation game built with Next.js, TypeScript, and Tailwind CSS. It leverages the HTML5 Canvas API for high-performance rendering of isometric graphics, featuring complex systems for economic simulation, trains, planes, seaplanes, helicopters, cars, pedestrians, and more.
Video games
Video games
fromKotaku
2 months ago

New Shooter Is All About Hacking The Game & Avoiding FPS Dips

FPS Quest is a roguelike first-person shooter where simulated framerate instability and game corruption threaten player survival and must be managed to avoid fatal crashes.
fromEngadget
2 months ago

GeForce Now adds support for flight controllers

It only seems right that cloud gaming should welcome virtual pilots, and that's definitely now the case if GeForce Now is your streaming platform of choice. One of the most frequently requested features from its community according to NVIDIA, flight control support has now been added to its GeForce Now offering, meaning you can live your Top Gun fantasies without worrying about your rig buckling under the pressure.
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