Tail Gunner is in the same category as Battle Tank and Web War. It requires only a 200MHz machine, which is not a problem nowadays. It is very simple. All one needs to do is click the mouse button to fire and try to avoid contact with enemy fighters. The third picture is a flash screen because an enemy fighter got past me and fired on my ship.
Web War is also very easy to play. All one needs to do is move the ship with the “arrow” keys and fire with the “space” key.
Battle Tank is extremely easy to play; even for me – an absolutely idiot when it comes to video games. It only requires a 133MHZ machine and players need to know only a few keys (as in first picture) in order to play.
We are living in a fast-paced world, where technology is advancing at a breathtaking pace. Imagine all the new technologies that have been introduced in the past ten years. Not that long ago, we did not have Smartphones, all the Apple devices -- iPhone, iPad, and iPod -- DVDs or even relatively affordable high-definition flat screen televisions. In the year 2000, we were still using dial-up to connect to the Internet, saved files on 3½ inch floppy disks and played music on cassette tapes rather than CDs. Ten years ago, I had never heard of online banking, online video games, online social networking, virtual worlds and so forth. With all the changes that have taken place in the last ten years, what can one expect will happen to Immersive Education in the next ten years? Will classroom teaching still be the norm or will Immersive Education largely replace it
Recently, I became acquainted with a start-up company (http://www.immerz.com) based in Cambridge, MA that has developed a device that is intended to take PC gaming and movie viewing to a new level. The device allows game players and movie viewers to feel and sense what is happening before they hear or see it just as they do in real life when a vehicle approaches or an automobile accelerates.
I can foresee the virtual world adopting this technology. A virtual world creates the illusion of being physically present in a particular place and participating in some activity, for example, riding a horse. However, the experience is incomplete because today virtual worlds are more like cartoons than real. For example, the horses we were riding (as shown in the picture) do not look like real horses and our bodies do not feel the impact of the horses’ hooves striking the ground.
A major drawback of Immersive Education today is that it lacks the feel of in-person education. But what if the experience were made so much more lifelike that the avatars looked exactly like the students and the instructors, the virtual classroom could be viewed in 3D (images and effect) and students could hear each other not just through a small speaker but through surround sound coupled with a device that gave them the “feel” of being in a classroom?
If that could be done, the time and cost required to participate in a class in-person in one place could be eliminated. Immersive Education could provide students a learning experience that was even better than they could have if physically present in the classroom. In an architecture course, for example, students could actually explore the interior and exterior of a building with their instructor as their guide. Students might meet in-person only at the beginning of a course and after that participate in a virtual classroom as if they were present in person.
At the rate technology is developing, I can envision Immersive Education at some point in the future becoming the preferred mode of education at many educational institutions.
I signed up a Gizmoz account, chose my favorite video and uploaded my own pictures. And then I copied the embed code and pasted it into the blogger.
