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long time, no update!

Simon and I just finished our project for the “Lange Nacht der Forschung” a.k.a “European Researchers Night”. While it was quite exhausting during the last week (~75 workhours from monday – friday) the results where quite satisfying. Thank you to everybody who contributed!

We worked together with quite a team of students from the JKU and Kunstuni on a space game where you had to remove trash from areas to enable the launch of new satellites. The input devices were designed and implemented by the Interface Cultures and consisted of 3 independent controls:

• a turntable-style device for controlling the yaw of your ship and a one-hand, one-axis controller for vertical movement
• a mounted gun that you could turn up, down, left and right to aim at trash. It had a trigger to start the grabbing process
• a bicycle that controlled the forward/backward movement of the ship. This was mostly designed for parents

The fun part of the story was that since you had to collaborate with the 2 other players, so you can imagine it was quite noisy. To bad that the application wasn’t very stable and we had to restart quite often, especially when kids where on the bike and got rid of all the left-over energy they had from the day, resulting in space ships racing around like crazy and crashing into all satellites causing mayhem in our Application, inVRs and probably also ODE (note, ODE doesn’t like fast moving objects, and cylinders .

So, once more, thanks to all contributers that they remained calm even during the crunch time and the final sessions.

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