http://sharkride.com/blog/2006/09/18/new-google-earth-multimedia-features-including-turn-here-videos/ A Wm. Matthew Jaunich presentation of innovative concepts. Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:17:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 http://sharkride.com/blog/2006/09/18/new-google-earth-multimedia-features-including-turn-here-videos/#comment-290 SHARKRIDE Fri, 27 Oct 2006 01:23:38 +0000 http://sharkride.com/blog/2006/09/18/new-google-earth-multimedia-features-including-turn-here-videos/#comment-290 [...] Imagine a website, in the vein of Second Life or The Sims, where students are avatars and have to travel around the world to discover clews and achieve goals. The game would not only incorporate Google maps and National Geographic videos (as I’ve already mentioned is happening in Google Earth), but also 3D simulated spaces, where students can meet and interact with historically significant characters and students from different places and even time. There could be a time machine, for example, where you scroll along a time line and the civilizations of the earth change, depending on where you locate the cursor on the time line , so you can explore the Mayan cities, or the pyramids in Egypt, or the great civilization of China, and learn about the technological and social advancements of the human race. Time and place can be manipulated, but does exist, so your avatar has to travel to the airport, board and travel on an airplane, and find taxis to move around foreign cities, which heightens the realism of the experience. Thoughts? [...] […] Imagine a website, in the vein of Second Life or The Sims, where students are avatars and have to travel around the world to discover clews and achieve goals. The game would not only incorporate Google maps and National Geographic videos (as I’ve already mentioned is happening in Google Earth), but also 3D simulated spaces, where students can meet and interact with historically significant characters and students from different places and even time. There could be a time machine, for example, where you scroll along a time line and the civilizations of the earth change, depending on where you locate the cursor on the time line , so you can explore the Mayan cities, or the pyramids in Egypt, or the great civilization of China, and learn about the technological and social advancements of the human race. Time and place can be manipulated, but does exist, so your avatar has to travel to the airport, board and travel on an airplane, and find taxis to move around foreign cities, which heightens the realism of the experience. Thoughts? […]

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