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Flappy Bird arcade game — Flappy Bird Arcade Game photo by Andy Piper June 2024

Published 10 June 2024

Andy and Michael R get together to talk through this week’s articles. In this episode, the team discusses virtual reality work, entertainment and games along with space science.

Andy starts things off with his recent experiences at the Electromagnetic Field festival. With great examples of Flappy Bird, Asteroids and more, he shares what he saw at the festival.

Following the festival, there are a tremendous set of AR / VR stories ranging from how Ikea is staffing their virtual Roblox stores, to simulating jobs and unique storytelling from Marvel with the Vision Pro.

Space is the place for Games at Work – and two articles in particular capture the attention of the co-hosts this week, including one from NASA about Vulcan, and another from Popular Mechanics on how interstellar travel may work.

Wrapping up this episode are a couple of links, dealing with a new open-world racing game and a database of GIF banners.

What’s your favorite 88×31 GIF? Have your bots 🤖 drop our bots 🤖 a line at @gamesatwork_biz (our home for now) and let us know!

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I was so excited I forgot to add the video! This is a single 7.5W laser running at 30kHz sample rate, the tracking is essentially a travelling salesman algorithm. Oh and the laser control software is all Seb’s too. Go check out Seb’s work! Truly terrific stuff https://seblee.co #asteroids #laser #emfcamp

— Andy Herd 🏳️‍🌈🌳 (@herdingdata) 2024-05-31T23:41:42.394Z