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.
I teleported Ace and Zayn to the Frank Lloyd Wright Virtual Museum, which is owned by the FLWM Building and Planning Committee and licensed by the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation. I landed on the top of the Fallingwater.
Ace and Zayn joined me later. We were explored by flying around the house.
Below me is the famous Frank Lloyd Wright Usonian style house.
I was attracted by a picture -- the Federick C. Robie House. The house has not yet been constructed, as it shows “coming soon”.
We decided we were ready for our next destination. I took my last screenshot.
Zayn teleported Ace and me to a place called Black Horse Country. He showed us how to sit on a horse.
Ace and I joined him later. The three of us sat on the horse together.
Zayn led us to a bull farm. He invited us to ride on the bull. 
I was trying to ride but failed. Zayn told me to fly up and right click on the bull.
I took a screenshot of Zayn at the end of the tour.
First, all classmates met at one place. Ace, Zayn and I decided to be in a group.
I teleported them one at a time. Ace was the first.
Zayn joined us later. I teleported them to a place that I had landmarked, called Forest Feast. Forest Feast has beautiful trees and fields of flowers waiting for people who love gardens, fantasy and romance. Here you will find colorful floral plants, and everything you need to decorate your yard, garden, or meditation area.
Then, I flew them to the crystal shining building that I had previously discovered.
We decided to move on to the next destination. I took my last screenshot.
ScienceSim is a virtual environment that allows several parties to participate in building a simulation, working together jointly in either real time or at different times. I was in the virtual world at night (that’s why below pictures are dark) with a few other classmates. Each of us had a different perspective. That enabled us to focus on the parts of the scene that most interested to us. ScienceSim is an open-source application and still in beta stage. At times I experienced some server instability, resulting in delays and one time logging me off.
First, I went to the Ivory Towers where I could learn some basic building skills and was hoping to find someone who knew how to build. I found 2 persons there and I asked whether they know how to build or not. I got no response from Trystan O’Hare.
Wada Portland responded, but he was there to learn as I was.
I walked into the Ivory Towers. I spoke to Ivan Scrabblebat. He was there to learn as well.
Ivan Scrabblebat walked away from me. Then I decided to tour the Ivory Towers.
I found some helpful tutorials. In the picture, the tutorial shows how to adjust size of an object.
Dania, Kimberly and I were assigned to a group to build a garage. We agreed to build a 2-door garage. Jose joined us soon after. We searched for a sandbox near where other classmates were building house. We then created an object on the sandbox to mark the piece of land as ours.
We started by constructing the basic frame of the garage. We had not agreed on the texture of the garage at that point. That is why the back wall was a different color then the side walls. We used the chat tool to communicate and agreed to use brick as the garage’s texture.
The four of us each got the chance to build one part – back, right and left walls and the roof. In above picture, we were trying to coordinate the height and width of our walls.
I inspected the garage from far behind it to get a better view. I discovered that Jose had added an antenna at the peak of the garage. It looked cool to me!
Then, I flew further away and saw that our garage fitted in well with the big house that our other classmates had built.
Kimberly then had an idea to add a semi-rounded patch in front of the garage. That added completeness to the garage.
Although everything appeared from one angle to line up perfectly; that was not the case when we looked at the garage from other angles. Therefore, we spent a lot of time walking around the garage trying to line up various parts.
At the end, we had to delete what we had created.
