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Fifteen Teams Selected for DARPA Grand Challenge

Posted by michael on from the lowered-expectations dept.

doughnuthole writes "The official posting has been made of the 15 teams that qualified for the Grand Challenge, seven of which completed the entire QID course. The top three teams, and thus those who get to start first, were the Red Team, SciAutonics II, and Team Caltech. The race starts at 6:30 am Saturday, with teams leaving every 5 minutes. A live webcast will be available at grandchallenge.org." Reader uss_valiant writes "Tomshardware runs an article about DARPA's Grand Challenge. It features new pictures, the DARPA video of the qualification and covers some technical challenges such as the obstacle detection."

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  1. Re:Streaming Broadcast over the Internet by Arae · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    What's with all the anti-geeks clues that I get from this Grand Challenge thing...

    First, if I'm not mistaken, DARPA channel can only be access through satellite; how many of us average geeks can actually afford it?

    Second, the 3D tracking thing on DARPA's site requires fucking Shockwave player, which there are NONE in Linux. I know it can be run with the Crossover plugin, but I'm not going to buy it (or register for the demo) just for watching a useless 3D map.

    Third, the CMU's broadcasting requires another fucking priorietary software - Quicktime; and in order to watch it in Linux, Crossover plugin is also required... (seriously, why couldn't they direct the broadcasting to MPlayer, instead of _requiring_ Quicktime?).

    Oh well, guess I have to watch it on my roommate's Wintel machine.