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Article: Violent computer games have role in fire safety.
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- NewsRx Health & Science
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- February 22, 2009
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The software code underlying violent computer games can be used to train people in fire safety, new academic research has found.
Commercial games such as Doom 3 and Half Life 2 can be used to build virtual worlds to train people in fire evacuation procedures by applying the games' underlying software code, according to the Durham University researchers.
A 3D model of a real world building and three fire evacuation scenarios were programmed in three weeks by a single developer complete with smoke and fire. The Durham experts say this is significantly quicker and more cost-effective than using traditional virtual reality toolkits or writing the code from ...