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In Real Life

What Kind Of Person Plays A Sports Games? MIT Has The Answers

More than a year ago, Abe Stein of the Game Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology reached out to me about a survey he was conducting, an examination of sports video gamers. Stein, himself a committed sports gamer, wanted to know who made up this segment of gaming — long viewed as an outlier to the main gaming culture — and what motivated them.

24 April 2012

In Real Life

MIT Students Turn Campus Building Into Playable Tetris Game

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has a long (long) history of student “hacks” — harmless but clever pranks. Several tend to show up in any given year. Previous reasonably recent favourites (of mine) include turning a building into The One Ring, flying Nyan Cat through a lobby, and an upside-down lounge.

19 January 2012

In Real Life

EA Sports Drafts Two From MIT, Colorado State

Four months ago, EA Sports opened up applications for a four-month fellowship meant to invite former college athletes into video game design careers. Today, the label awarded its first two, to graduates who played football at Colorado State University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

6 May 2011

Nintendo

MIT Just Built A Better Nintendo 3DS Screen

A group of researchers from MIT have developed a new version of the parallax barrier technology used by Nintendo to give the 3DS its signature 3D visuals. The new version of the screen, called HR3D (“High Rank 3D”), can produce the same glasses-free 3D images as the 3DS, but does so while generating a brighter image and using less battery power. HR3D uses two layered screens to produce 3D, just like the 3DS.

1 May 2011

In Real Life

A Study Returns Easy Answers To Questions Not Yet Asked

Poring over the data, sifting through more than 1,700 specimens, a team of MIT researchers is, as we speak, cataloging the species known as the sports gamer. The data is, so far, unsurprising.

20 March 2011

In Real Life

Is This Studying Hate Speech, Or Just Intellectualized Trolling?

GAMBIT, the video games research centre at MIT, is investigating racism and hate speech in online multiplayer gaming. The results are not particularly surprising, but I’ll confess to a morbid curiosity as to what a gamer would hear playing Halo: Reach under the gamertag PROUD_2B_MUSLIM, GayPride90 or Black_N_Proud90. It, and the language in this video, is decisively NSFW.

12 March 2011

News

Contribute To The First Major Study Of Sports Video Gamers

The games development research lab GAMBIT, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has launched a study of sports video gamers, one a researcher believes will be the first comprehensive, independent examination of a very large video game segment, but one often seen as an outlier to the wider culture.

25 January 2011

Xbox

Kinect Hack Shows Star Wars Holograms Not So Far, Far Away

The tech behind the Xbox 360′s new camera controller, Kinect, is now being used for an impressive – most impressive – new feat: the ability to capture 3D images, transmit them over the internet and display them in holographic form.

5 January 2011

News

What Good Is A Computer Processor That Does Bad Math?

One of the core functions of a computer processor is to perform the basic arithmetical functions of the system. Why would we want a processor that gets those basic calculations wrong? Carnegie Mellon’s Joseph Bates has the answer.

7 September 2010

In Real Life

We Need Some Cheetos Here Stat!

A robot playing video games at the MIT Media Lab… sans a savoury treat. As seen on Blackaller’s Twitpic.

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