New magazine about game development WGE:MAG

First off, we have an exciting announcement about a great new magazine dedicated to game development. This is named WGE:MAG. In this moment we can read the number two of this issue. This new magazine comes with article about console, mobile and online gamesdevelopers, artists, programmers, players and everything about games and gaming. Download this from here and it's free. This magazine is make by www.worldgamingexecutives.com.

Simple X11 example application .

You can see a simple X11 example application on www.geeks3d.com. The author say us:

Here is the full source code of a simple X11 app that creates a X window and displays some basic information about the system. To quit the app, two ways are available:

I tested this source code and is very easy to understand .

Jpcsp PlayStation Portable emulator

Jpcsp is just one PlayStation Portable emulator. This emulator software allowing you to play your PSP games on a PC. You can take it from here. First , you must have have the JRE - Java on your computer. I use on my Fedora 16 the package : jre-6u27-linux-i586.bin. Also, I use this command to start the emulator:

$ java -Xmx1024m -Djava.library.path=lib/linux-x86 -jar bin/jpcsp.jar

The result is shown in the following screenshot:

Qt with threaded OpenGL support.

Here's a pretty exciting news for developers. Qt, the cross-platform application and user interface framework, is available in version 4.8.0 under fedora 16. The new Ot has the threaded OpenGL support. Under Fedora 16 , we have the development packages:

(1/2): libXv-devel-1.0.6-2.fc15.i686.rpm                 |  38 kB     00:00     
(2/2): qt-devel-4.8.0-0.23.rc1.fc16.i686.rpm             |  10 MB     00:03 

We expect developers will use this functionality to create new graphics applications.

3D engine for Java developers

Who wants to write 3D games that run on Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android ?
If you are a Java developer and you want do that , then use jMonkeyEngine framework jME).
The engine is written in Java and uses LWJGL for OpenGL access.
It is a high-performance, 3D scenegraph-based graphics API with state-of-the-art features.
The jME3 is completely open-source under the BSD license and it is free to use it.
You can find documentation, help and a nice community around JME and jMonkeyEngine.
jMonkeyEngine Homepage
Wiki
Forum

China will launch first 3D television channel in January

The Internet brings us news about 3D television, in a region less than expected - China.

Beijing: Television viewers in China can expect a totally different viewing experience as the country's hopes to launch its first 3D television channel Jan 1, 2012, the government has announced. The TV channel will go into official operation during the Lunar New Year Festival in late January, Xinhua reported.

Read more on this site.

Construct 2 Release r68

This is just a new visual tool for HTML5 game development.
Construct 2 is an program that lets you make games .
Also seam is not programming required...
The development team show us a video and let us to see that.
You can download this from here.

OpenACC new standard ...

OpenACC is a new standard for parallel programming developed by NVIDIA.
The GPU Computing and Parallel Computing PGI Accelerator directives are the basis of the OpenACC standard.
Most people do not know hardware issues, it is still necessary for them to know the evolution of technology in the field of 3D.
Here's a demo video about this technology.

Illyriad’s 3d Town rough demo with WebGL

The team development of Illyriad game try to use webgl API.
The result is a rough and ready demo.
The team tee us about this demo :
It’s very rough, not optimized and currently only runs on Chrome [working in all browsers that support WebGL is our priority]; but that’s kind of the point – its a technology tester to ensure we weren’t making a mistake.
I saw the screenshots and videos , but on my laptop the demo give me some errors.
The beginning is good , I hope will see in the future a good game, not just only a demo.
You can read more on this site.

3-D Simulations of Nova Explosions

On October 20, 2011 sciencedaily web site announced that:
Scientists at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. BarcelonaTech (UPC) have for the first time simulated critical phenomena.
Novae are cataclysmic stellar phenomena. This new study solving an enigma that has puzzled stellar astrophysicists for over half a century.
This simulations is maked with the MareNostrum supercomputer after 150,000 hours of calculation.
You can read more about this on article.

WebGL benchmarks by Stephen Bannasch.

You can try the new update of Stephen Bannasch benchmarks.
Stephen tell us about new features:

I've updated my benchmark page comparing matrix libraries useful for webgl programming with newer versions of some of the libraries:

- closure to svn rev: 1364
- glMatrix to 1.0.1
- tdl to commit: 59d484f, Fri Jun 3 2011
Also you can download the source code for these benchmarks.You can be found here on github.

HoloDesk the future of 3D.

The HoloDesk uses a half-silvered mirror and a Kinect sensor to “see” objects in 3D.
This device is created by Microsoft, a research project out of the Sensors and Devices group at Microsoft Research Cambridge.

You can get more infos about this project: HoloDesk - Direct 3D Interactions with a Situated See-Through Display

3Defy - transform your photos into 3D photos.

3Defy is a great demonstration of the most recent in Flash programming.
This is a site that lets you add 3D effects to 2D photos that you upload or link.
You can try to create your 3D images using modeler from here.
Upload your image and use Select for your face or Erase fro background.
Use mouse wheel to increase or decrease the active area.

Use Save or Share buton to use it.

Let's see the result ...

Nice !