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Microsoft Has Built Its New Campus In Minecraft To Introduce Employees (cnbc.com)
Microsoft is using Minecraft to help employees get acquainted with a refresh of the company's campus in Redmond, Washington. CNBC reports: Earlier this year, Microsoft enlisted Blockworks, a company that uses Minecraft's digital building blocks for designing real-world projects, to create a miniature rendering of the campus facelift, which is scheduled for completion in 2022. They're using graphics that are far more immersive than two-dimensional photos and videos.
While Minecraft was designed for gamers, its immersive nature and the ability to quickly move around and construct edifices makes it easy to see how new buildings will look when inserted into an existing landscape. [James Delaney, a managing director at Blockworks] said Minecraft forces designers to sacrifice some accuracy because structures in real life don't always have the game's squared-off look, but the speed and ease of use more than made up for those deficiencies. It might take just 10 minutes to wrap up a single building, he said. Microsoft employees -- and anyone else with the education edition of Minecraft -- can now take a digital tour of the new campus and see how plans are developing. Outside of Microsoft, that access requires a subscription to Office 365 Education.
While Minecraft was designed for gamers, its immersive nature and the ability to quickly move around and construct edifices makes it easy to see how new buildings will look when inserted into an existing landscape. [James Delaney, a managing director at Blockworks] said Minecraft forces designers to sacrifice some accuracy because structures in real life don't always have the game's squared-off look, but the speed and ease of use more than made up for those deficiencies. It might take just 10 minutes to wrap up a single building, he said. Microsoft employees -- and anyone else with the education edition of Minecraft -- can now take a digital tour of the new campus and see how plans are developing. Outside of Microsoft, that access requires a subscription to Office 365 Education.
These has got to be one of the least interesting things I've seen posted on /. in a while, and that it really saying something.
I'm imagining a guy working at Microsoft right now getting the email telling him about how you can explore the next Microsoft campus in Minecraft, and he's saying "Go fuck yourself" to whoever sent it.
This won't work for any Microsoft employees using Linux. They never ported the Bedrock/EducationEd. to Linux.
So much for MSFT "loving" Linux, and FOSS.
I'm going to grief all their shit then walk for 4 hours and build my own campus in the middle of no where.
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Letâ(TM)s be honest: who hasnâ(TM)t ever fantasized about stabbing their boss with a diamond sword?
ah das ist schön, sehr schön
I built a Quake map of my high school (pre-Columbine) and we would play it all the time.
Hell depending on what the architects used you could probably just export it to Unity these days.
This is basically an ad.
Unless the designers are 10 years old there is absolutely no benefit to using Minecraft compared to almost any other 3D engine. All it does is force you to deal with artificial constraints on object placement and runtime (many engines these days can render directly in browsers).
I taught a 16 year old to build maps in CryEngine so it's not like these engines are hard to use for a professional company.
Well, after Microsoft had spent $2.5 billion on purchasing Minecraft, they would have had to use it for something.
"We mustn't be caught by surprise by our own advancing technology" -- Aldous Huxley
...turns out it is WAY harder to mine glass in real life than in Minecraft.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
striking terror in every new employees heart
Name of the campus: Windranil
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