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Sega To Close Arcades, Cancel Games, Lay Off Employees 66

Posted by Soulskill on Thursday February 12, 2009 @04:43AM from the not-enough-tokens dept.

slugo writes with this excerpt from Wired: "The house that Sonic built is getting significantly smaller. Sega's Japanese main branch said Tuesday that it will close 110 arcades, cancel some games in development and seek to lay off 18 percent of its staff. ... Sega says it will chop 20 percent off its research-and-development budget for arcade and consumer games. The company plans to do this by 'consolidating titles to be developed' and 'enhancing the self-manufacture ratio.'"

Comment Re:"America's Firemen"? (Score 1) 67

by nikhilwiz on Thursday June 07, 2007 @01:20PM (#19425873) Attached to: Using AI To Train Firefighters

Funny you should ask. I wrote the 3D visualization tool for this while I was a grad student at USC. I used Torque game engine to use an existing model (aquired using LiDAR) and layered on an arial photograph on it for the textures - that's how much fancy I could have gotten given the time we had. I left in 2005 and am not sure if they are still using it though. But, the pictures you see on TFA are screenshots from the tool I developed. As to why I'm not listed on the list of grad students who participated on TFA is questionable. You can see the paper which talks about this here

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