[game_edu] Classroom Technology Question

[Mike Doherty]

We're using Vision 6 from GenevaLogic. It does everything you're looking
for quite well.

The only problem I've had with it (this would relate to game courses) is
that it seems to kill the graphics update rate on the student computers.
I've had problems with DirectX, OpenGL and Java 2D graphics. They all
work fine, just very slow.

I haven't investigated it thoroughly, but it seems obvious that it has
to steal copies of the graphics output buffer, hence the slowdown. Could
be that there are tweaks and configurations to fix the problem, but we
haven't had time to look into it.

Mike Doherty
Associate Professor, Computer Science
University of the Pacific
mdoherty at pacific.edu



-----Original Message-----
From: game_edu-bounces at igda.org [mailto:game_edu-bounces at igda.org] On
Behalf Of Tom Dowd
Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2007 11:19 AM
To: 'IGDA Game Education Listserv'
Subject: [game_edu] Classroom Technology Question

I have classroom technology question not specifically related to game
education, but the applicability should be obvious...

Can anyone recommend workstation monitoring software/hardware that
allows an
instructor to see all the monitors in the classroom, individually or via
thumbnails, and take direct control over the mouse/keyboard input of the
slave workstation?

Net Orbit 1.5 is an example of what I am referring to -
http://www.net-orbit.com/

Thanks in advance!

Tom Dowd

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Tom Dowd
Columbia College Chicago
Faculty/Interactive Arts and Media (Game Design Major)
http://game.colum.edu
tdowd at colum.edu



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