Quake II

...scores of people working for years. Gaming on Facebook is just a couple of years old. Wu, whose resume includes being a professional Quake 2 gamer and former partner at Charles River Ventures, started the company in the fall of 2008 and...

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...developed Quake Classic. After that he plans to work on Quake 2 for the iPhone. "I'm not sure if after Quake 2 I want to do Quake Arena or Quake Live for the iPhone," he said. The problem is that while Quake Live has better levels it...

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...that Doom runs on their iPhone. coryjg, 44 minutes ago, -9/+8...but can it run Crysis? techdever, on 11/01/2009, -8/+1This took a lot of time. Pocket PCs have been able to play Quake 2 (unofficial) quite well on VGA screens back in 2005.

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Princeton's David Tank just published a paper in Nature describing how he used the open-source Quake 2 engine to power a VR maze that he ran mice through in order to study their neurons while they moved. My wife, who played Quake on the...

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...prevented accurate readings. So he placed the mouse on a giant trackball and let it run through a virtual maze from the video game Quake 2 displayed on screens. Brandon Keim writes in Wired: Studying individual neurons has been possible...

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...first read Slashdot's book review guidelines. Updated: 2008114 by samzenpus 6432117 story Comments: 12 +- Games: Scientists Use Quake 2 To Study the Brains of Mice on Thursday October 15, @02:10PM Posted by Soulskill on Thursday...

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...classic mouse-in-a-maze: strap it to a suspended ball and have it run through a virtual maze. That first virtual maze? Derived from a Quake 2 level. Apparently it's difficult to control and study the neurons of a mouse when it's physically...

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Lab mice can say goodbye to clunky old non-virtual mazes In this video, a mouse runs through a virtual maze derived from a Quake 2 level, by steering a trackball suspended on a jet of air. Obviously the Princeton scientists did this...

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...as the mouse runs. Those readings were the input for the researchers' virtual reality software - a modified version of the open-source Quake 2 video game engine, tweaked to project an image on a screen surrounding the mouse. Tank called it...

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...overcome this problem using virtual reality. To create rodent VR, the team tweaked an open-source version of the first-person-shooter Quake II. They used the game's underlying physics engine to create a 3D virtual corridor that changes...

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