Up & Coming Weekly

December 07, 2010

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Enter for your chance to WIN tickets Name______________________________________ Phone Number___________________________________ Email_______________________________________ Please send completed entry form to Up & Coming Weekly, 208 Rowan St., Fayetteville, NC 28301 or fax to 910.484.9218. Is It Live or Is It Memorex? by BOB ERVIN Companionship Medication Reminders Meal Preparation Light Housekeeping Shopping & Errands Personal Care Each Home Instead Senior Care® Call for a free, no-obligation appointment: 910.484.7200 homeinstead.com franchise office is independently owned and operated. © 2010 Home Instead, Inc. Look for i3D technology to bring many changes in the future. Several years ago, that TV commercial touted the latest technology in audio- recording. The idea was that the sound on the audio tape breaking the glass was so “real,” you could not tell if it was live or recorded. Now, imagine walking through a town that you can’t tell whether it is real or Authentic Italian Cuisine Brick Fired NY Pizza not. This is the latest innovation in digital video. It is called “interactive three dimensional” (i3D) technology. And the impact on education, training, com- mercial advertising, military preparedness, homeland security and gaming is going to be incredible. Fayetteville Technical Community College (FTCC) established the first Advanced Visualization Center (AVC) for education, training, and development in the U.S. in 2008. The college offers a 16-week curriculum of five courses which will provide the training necessary to develop i3D content using various software applications. An intensive series of courses will immerse the student into the world of interactive 3D culminating in the creation of a 3D object for education or training. Imagine being able to interact with a hologram of an aircraft engine or having an expert in heart surgery being projected into the classroom to lecture on the latest surgical techniques. The world of education and training just changed forever. The i3D content demand is projected to be a $77 billion industry. Aggregating all the current content developers worldwide only accounts for $9 billion, leaving a gap of more than $68 billion in demand for i3D content development and growing. Think Avatar the movie! Voted Fayetteville’s Best Overall Restaurant The curriculum at FTCC is part of the plan to fill this gap, creating jobs for an industry on the verge of exploding. Expectation is that there will be a spinoff of cottage industries, as graduates use their laptops from home over the Internet to create and send i3D content. The first applications being explored are for the mili- tary and education. One such scenario illustrates a Blackhawk flying over terrain to photograph where future operations might occur. Once it returns to base, the pho- tos are downloaded, and the GIS data is matched to the flight. A virtual copy of the area can then be created. The soldiers could then be walking through that terrain as if they were physically on the ground. This is just one of the ways this technology can provide better information to our military. The possibilities are endless. The journey is just starting. Who knows where     678-8885 16 UCW DECEMBER 8-14, 2010     822-3590 this road will lead for our community and our region as this transformational tech- nology becomes one of the economic engines for changing the workforce? Is it live or is it Memorex? Guess we will find out together. For more information, contact Bob Ervin at FTCC at 910-678-8442 or er- vinb@faytechcc.edu. BOB ERVIN, Vice President for Learning Tech- nologies at FTCC, COMMENTS? 484-6200 ext. 222 or Stephanie@upandcomingweekly.com WWW.UPANDCOMINGWEEKLY.COM

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