Tracking and Modelling the world around us should be possible with a simple webcam.
There are some great results out there:
You can go to the website of this project: http://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~gk/
When will the first robots run through our environment, recharging themselves, mapping the world and tracking us?
OnLive will open up for everybody in June. Living in germany, it's impossible for me to check it out. But I thought about it.
There are some rules on how to handle passwords etc.
But what can you do, when there is no encrypted communication and you need to verify a password?
For example: Game starts and the user wants to log in to play online. The player enters Password and Username. How do you send it to the server, that some packet sniffing crackers won't get it?
Maybe this way: Server sends a one-time question to the client, client hashes the answer with the hash of the entered and salted password and sends it to the server. Server knows the answer and also hashes it with the hash of the password. So everything the sniffer gets are one-time valid logins.
Should be safe, shouldn't it?
Not only is Chris Taylor making a funny videoblog for their next project, he also shows some technique for a better pathfinding in Supreme Commander 2:
Great pathfinding. It should be implemented in every RTS game. It looks really more realistic. I am looking for the game. I played Total Annihilation and its addons and SupCom and FA and I want to see, how these smart people want to bring this genre to a broader audience!
Carnegie Mellon professor and ex-imagineer Jesse Schell lays out a vision of the future in which our lives become, essentially, one big RPG.
