This afternoon, folks from UNC, NC State, UNC Asheville, and Duke met to talk about common interests in visualization tools such as the Unity3d game engine.

Everyone discussed current projects and ideas, and some common threads were found:

• Mapping GIS and DEM (digital elevation models) into environments such as Unity.
• Integration of mobile devices and sensors to create hybrid environments for augmented reality and other applications.
• Integration of real-world media into environments, along with annotations.
• WiiMote and WiiFit as user interaction.
• Game engines combined with dome and stereo environments.

This is an informal group, but we hope to trade notes, ideas, and code as projects evolve!   Here’s a shot of the group meeting in the Social Computing Room, along with remote participants via the Vidyo system at RENCI.

Meeting about Unity game engine at RENCI