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NASA Playing With Unreal Engine For Virtual World
An anonymous reader writes "Daniel Laughlin, Project Manager for NASA's Learning Technologies Office spoke at the International Space Flight Museum in SecondLife and said that they are using the Unreal 3 Engine to create a synthetic world for training. The mission? The moon by 2020, and Mars by 2035. He said, 'We are combining the efforts of a commercial game developer, two universities and two NASA mission directorates into the project. If we can't check off all three boxes at the end, then we'll have done a poor job.'"
The only check off box NASA needs to be concern about is converting measurements between different systems. There's a big difference between pounds and kilograms. If you jump off the virtual moon and go flying into orbit, you're know they didn't do the gravity calculation correctly.
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