Abstract:
Game developers are accustomed to employing a wide variety of
techniques of achieve as close to real-time performance as possible
on low-cost hardware.  Most other industries, such as the training and
simulations world, have historically managed to achieve the
performance by "throwing hardware" at the problem, which has led to
many expensive custom solutions.  These industries are now beginning
to realize that applying game development techniques can provide the
answers they need at a fraction of the cost.  This talk presents a
brief history of the Serious Games initiative, discusses some current
industry standards for interactive simulation development, and closes
with a demonstration of several off-the-shelf toolkits for developing
military-grade simulations.