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by Neil Marshall · 03/21/2005 (4:20 pm) · 4 comments

Virtual Canada is getting closer to being fully released. It's been at Expo2005 for the past couple days but it doesn't fully open until the 25th. I have some photos/videos of the inside of the pavilion but I think I'll hold off posting them until the opening day.

Here is a very stereotypical photo taken out front of the Pavilion. Mounties and orientals in SARS masks.

www.eightlines.com/neil/temp/expo/Canadiana_Mounties.jpg
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Torque Owner Josiah Wang
#1
03/21/2005 (4:29 pm)
Whoa whoa whoa...in your Feb 18 plan you said:

Quote:
I mentioned in my last plan that I was contacted by a company that wanted someone who knew torque. Well I worked for them from home for a while and they asked me to come in to work for them full time for 3 weeks on a project, so thats what I've been doing for the past week. I can't really say much about the project, but they updated their web site with screenshots of it so without further adu...

So virtual canada is being built with torque??

^ either that or i'm just stupid >_<


Still, Virtual Canada's idea sounds awesome. I have relatives who live far away from each other in Canada - this could probably be very useful



[edit]
Wow, I guess it really is torque-based. I browsed around the site, and I'm just purely amazed at seeing actual examples of torque being used in things other than game-related. That's fraqing awesome!

Torque Owner Brian Wells
#2
03/21/2005 (6:11 pm)
Whoa...got some SARS patients there. The folks with the face masks. Either that or they have some kind of wicked morning breath. I plan to steer clear of them.

Torque Owner Neil Marshall
#3
03/21/2005 (7:31 pm)
Yes it uses Torque. We modelled representations of most of the major cities in Canada. The ones that are shown on the screens in the pavilions are Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary, Halifax, Iqaluit, and Montreal... the cities that the 6 people they chose to be at the pavilion are from.

The downloadable version will have 23 cities in total. They aren't always the ones you would expect either because we tried to show the wide array of different locations that Canada has.

You can see torque running on the touch screen systems here.

Torque Owner Clint S. Brewer
#4
03/21/2005 (9:57 pm)
that picture is brilliant!