SECOND LIFE - THE UWA MACHINIMA CHALLENGE 2010

THE UWA MACHINIMA CHALLENGE 2010

The University of Western Australia (UWA) is a leading Australian research university and has an international reputation for excellence, innovation and enterprise. A member of the Australian 'Group of Eight' research universities, it is also among Australia's leading research universities.

Sitting on the banks of the Swan River, the UWA Crawley campus is the oldest in Western Australia and among the most picturesque in the nation with its grand sandstone and terracotta buildings sitting among elegant heritage-listed gardens.

UWA Sunken Gardens (RL & SL location) This is a place of great significance to the staff and alumni of the University. Many many people get married in this location in RL every week, and it is a place of nostalgia, and quite a few people who got married in RL at the sunken gardens, have been here looking at the SL version of the place they exchanged vows.

UWA Square Kilometer Array - SKA (to be created in RL) Now, these are replicas of telescopes that
will be built in the Australian Outback, at a place called Boolardy station. 40 of them will be built for a smaller project caller ASKAP, or the Australian Square Kilometer Array Pathfinder. Currently the final telescope design is presented in SL and the unique characteristic of these dishes is illustrated, namely the three rotational axes where most telescope dishes only have 2. Australia is in a battle with South Africa to secure the rights to the Main SKA, which will comprise 4000 radio telescope dishes.
This will be the biggest land based science project in the history of mankind.

UWA Sky Theater (SL only location) This is a theater we have created for use by Professor Wade Halvorson of the School of Business and Professor Mark Pegrum of the Graduate School of education. Professor Halvorson ran an entire 2nd year Bachelor of Commerce Unit using this as his primary location. It was run for the first time ever this semester, in a unit called Electronic Communications Strategy.

Filmed & Edited by Sophia Yates 2010

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[8712222q]

goood

[PROFILESophiaYates]

@8712222q is that a goood goood? lol Thanks!

[PERIZ99]

I have one word to describe this: Awesome !

[PROFILESophiaYates]

@PERIZ99 Thank you PERIZ99 I had fun making this. It's really another wonderful example of how a University/ Institution is utilizing this technology to move further into the future and expand in so many directions.

[jayjayzifanwe]

well put together Sophia.... this one and the one on the winning flagship build for december. compliment each other nicely

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@PROFILESophiaYates

gooood good ; )