{"id":978,"date":"2006-08-27T17:07:01","date_gmt":"2006-08-27T21:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=978"},"modified":"2006-09-09T16:46:39","modified_gmt":"2006-09-09T20:46:39","slug":"visual-cues-and-bias-blindness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=978","title":{"rendered":"Visual Cues and Bias Blindness"},"content":{"rendered":"

I happened across a link on CGTalk<\/a> that took me to a machinima for Unreal Tournament 2007 (Link)<\/a>. Of course there’s been quite a lot of talk about Epic’s game engine(s) over the past year or so (you might recall my previous comment about it – reLink<\/a>), so I had to take a look for myself.<\/p>\n

I’ll confess that it’s not quite as nice as I’d hoped. The technology demos looked more impressive to me. However, that may be because I find the game design itself repetitious. All that computing power just to make another capture the flag. Once I get past that, I start thinking about what I always think about: convergence. To that end, let me show a couple screens and post links to some things that come to mind when I see what a videogame can now do.
\n–<\/p>\n

\"ut2k7-00w.jpg\"<\/p>\n

  • Interface design (reLink to previous entry<\/a>)<\/li>\n
  • Unmanned autonomous weapons platforms (reLink<\/a> and recent news of pilotless F-35 JSF<\/a>)<\/li>\n

    \"ut2k7-01w.jpg\"<\/p>\n

  • Engineering simulation (rising awareness among the engineering community – Link<\/a>)<\/li>\n
  • Collaborative design using virtual worlds (reLink<\/a>)<\/li>\n
  • Games tools as design tools (reLink<\/a>)<\/li>\n
  • Game content as real product (reLink<\/a>)<\/li>\n
  • Real product as game content (reLink<\/a>)<\/li>\n

    –<\/p>\n

    I’ll confess to not understanding how so many Industrial Designers can be blinded to the potentials of this technology. I don’t hear anyone discussing this stuff in the design community. I recently asked the designers on Core77 if any of them did any game design… y’know, for fun. Not a single positive response. Now that’s unreal.<\/p>\n

    {Images source: Epic Games<\/a>‘ video}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I happened across a link on CGTalk that took me to a machinima for Unreal Tournament 2007 (Link). Of course there’s been quite a lot of talk about Epic’s game engine(s) over the past year or so (you might recall … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administrative"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}