{"id":56740,"date":"2014-01-15T10:50:36","date_gmt":"2014-01-15T15:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/?p=56740"},"modified":"2020-09-23T15:28:47","modified_gmt":"2020-09-23T19:28:47","slug":"ucf-hosts-game-competition-orlando-science-centers-otronicon-expo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/ucf-hosts-game-competition-orlando-science-centers-otronicon-expo\/","title":{"rendered":"Âé¶¹Ó³»´«Ã½ Hosts Game Competition at Orlando Science Center’s Otronicon Expo"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Orlando Science Center is holding its annual Otronicon video-gaming expo this weekend, and part of its draw is a 48-hour competition organized by Âé¶¹Ó³»´«Ã½ to create a video game for a virtual reality game system.<\/p>\n
The 20 chosen competitors, which have already been placed on four teams, will be locked in a lab that has see-through walls, so visitors to Otronicon can observe them at work. The competition was organized by the Âé¶¹Ó³»´«Ã½\u2019s School of Visual Arts and Design and the E2i Creative Studio in the Institute for Simulation & Training.<\/p>\n
This is the ninth year of the technology festival, which runs today through Monday, Jan. 20. The event is to explore Orlando\u2019s technological impact on the worlds of entertainment<\/a>, simulation<\/a>, education, health care<\/a> and other fields. Visitors can also see dancing robots, interactive technologies, a demonstration of a bionic suit to help people walk who have lost the use of their legs, and other activities.<\/p>\n The center is at 777 E. Princeton St., Orlando. Hours of the show are 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday and Monday.\u00a0 The cost is $19 for adults, $17 for students and seniors, $13 for ages 3-11.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Orlando Science Center is holding its annual Otronicon video-gaming expo this weekend, and part of its draw is a 48-hour competition organized by Âé¶¹Ó³»´«Ã½ to create a video game for a virtual reality game system. The 20 chosen competitors, which have already been placed on four teams, will be locked in a lab that has see-through walls, so visitors…","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":56741,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"template-twocol.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"lazy_load_responsive_images_disabled":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[7900,4168],"tu_author":[],"class_list":["post-56740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science-technology","tag-e2i-creative-studio","tag-school-of-visual-arts-and-design"],"yoast_head":"\n