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GTA in real life.

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There is ample evidence that good driving simulators improve the skills of driving a real person and a great experience virtual racing is able to save lives in emergency situations. In the computer game, few choose the type of cabin. Usually we choose a third-person (just behind and above), so it looks more colorful. But is it possible in real life to manage a real car with this angle? It turns out you can. You are literally transported into a computer game, without leaving your car. The guys from Rooster Teeth of the project decided to conduct real-world experience. They consolidated the HD-camera on the back of a pickup. The driver had been pasted over windshield and side windows, and he drove his vehicle solely on the picture with the camera. The experimental badly handled the task. Perhaps, instead of booster should be given to them by a joystick on the Xbox 360.

News from Microsoft

Largest software corporation started in 2009 rather heated. At least, judging by the number of news coming from Redmond. Microsoft Corporation will spend $ 150 million on an advertising campaign, which aims to persuade businesses not to cut IT-budgets in crisis. The campaign, launched on 11 January, will be the last, third, phase of a broader campaign of People Ready, promotive business applications of Microsoft and ongoing for three consecutive years. As the slogan of the new phase was chosen phrase "It's everybody's business". During the campaign the real customers Microsoft will talk about how technology helped their business. Among the participants of the campaign - director of marketing for Coca Cola in North America, head of the U.S. unit Nestle and co-founder, producer of consumer goods Method. Stories of business representatives were recorded on the phone, and then superimposed on an animated video series. This resulted in savings in the production of commerci...