Monday, February 16, 2015

Breaking News Assignment 2

Historic Colorado trading post to be recreated in Minecraft - 9NEWS

http://www.9news.com/story/money/2014/11/19/colorado-frontier-trading-post-minecraft-bents-old-fort/19283743/




  A non-profit organization named Immersive Education is sponsoring students and engineers to virtually recreate a 1830s - 1840s trading post on the old Santa Fe Trail, the Bent's Old Fort. Immersive Education Initiative mentioned that the reconstructed Bent's Old Fort will be constructed based upon the ever-popular game Minecraft and other engineering software.

  Students from Colorado are cooperating with Stanford's Architecture Design Program to create an "immersive Bent's Old Fort." Once the construction is completed, Immersive Education Initiative plans to make this virtual historic site readily available and free of charge, in efforts to sharing the limited opportunity to the global audience. They are also expecting positive synergy effect with the in-person tours conducted on-site, along with their virtual tours.


This is an assignment from the Immersive Education course that I am taking at Boston College. The course is called Collaborative Computing. For details, visit the immersive BC portal at http://ImmersiveEducation.org/@/bc   

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