January 29, 2005
Experimental Game Lab at UC San Diego
Looks like my alma mater's got their own new game lab:
A gift of more than $290,000 from Sammy Studios, Inc., the Carlsbad, California-based videogame company, a subsidiary of Sega Sammy Holdings, was made in the fall of 2004 to support UCSD’s Experimental Game Lab (EGL) at the Center for Research in Computing and the Arts (CRCA).
CRCA’s EGL builds upon the extensive opportunities provided by the California Institute of Telecommunications and Information Technology [Cal-(IT)2]. Its focus is to create new forms of art, which extend the expressive capacity of technologies developed through the fields of computer gaming and scientific visualization.
EGL research will focus on issues relevant to next-generation platforms, such as persistent evolving multi-user on-line worlds, streaming media within games, on-demand asset derivation, soft body dynamics for character development, rendering techniques, and prototyping technologies.
“Computer games are a defining cultural form for the 21st century,” said Sheldon Brown, director of CRCA’s Experimental Game Lab and leader of the New Media Arts Layer at Cal-(IT)2. “The technology and aesthetics of computer games are driving the future development of computer graphics, visual communications and information infrastructures. The intellectual exchange at the core of this relationship will support the development of new types of expressive capacities through technological innovations.”
Link: UCSD Center for Research in Computing and the Arts
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