Thursday, November 27, 2008

Sharkrunner, the game

For those of you who are passionate about sharks you may find this game exciting. Using actual telemetry data collected from gps tags attached to real sharks, you are the virtual captain of a boat that tracks and studies sharks. The catch of course is the data on shark locations is REAL data that has been collected by marine scientists. I don't see how the feed could be live as GPS signals can't travel underwater, so likely the information in the game is past collected data. All the same, you know at least that the shark locations presented in the game correspond with actual sharks, and aren't estimations but real-world data collection points.

Happy Gaming

Sharkrunner

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