(Kickstarter Update #1) Explore Dubuque, Iowa’s Historic Millwork District with Virtual CARADCO
Using video games to visualize architecture? Why not? That’s what Main Street MMO is all about.
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$85 million Rutgers School of Business recreated virtually with Unity3D game engine
Check out this virtual preview of the new $85 million Rutgers School of Businesses, designed by Ten Arquitectos and replicated with the Unity3D game engine.
Read moreBarack Obama’s ‘Kansas to Cairo’ vision being realized in Second Life
During President Obama’s historic speech at Cairo University in Egypt last June, he describe a vision to, “invest in online learning for teachers and children around the world; and create a new online network, so a young person in Kansas can communicate instantly with a young person in Cairo.” If you’ve spent any time in [...]
Read more$900 million facility prototyped in Second Life now under construction
$900 million facility prototyped in Second Life now under construction
Read more400,000 pounds of tomatoes per acre: prototyping an aquaponics Eco Tower in Second Life
Brendon Bilavio took to Second Life like a fish in water – somewhat literally. Let me explain..
Read more“Future School of Finland” using realxtend to augment classrooms with virtual learning and community spaces
Almost exactly a year ago today, I published a post celebrating realxtend’s ability to enable 3D mesh imports – a post that remains the most popular on this site. Realxtend since took a deep dive into its code base, developing a custom viewer from scratch, and making significant strides in improving its platform overall. Now it [...]
Read moreDiscussing Unity, Realxtend, Opensim, Blue Mars and Second Life
This blog is all about discussing architecture and design in virtual worlds – so lets discuss it!
Read moreStunning computer graphics and ‘Post-Avatar Depression’
Check out this jaw-dropping, computer generated animation by Alex Roman, called “The Third & The Seventh.” If it weren’t for the ‘making-of’ videos that accompany this piece, I couldn’t possibly have believed this isn’t real video footage (even if it were, it would be equally compelling). He made this using 3DsMax, Vray, AfterEffects and Premiere on [...]
Read moreWelcome to my home: first attempts at using Unity3D for architectural visualization
Chez Keystone! Come on in…(plugin required). This isn’t multi-user (yet), and navigation might take some getting used to, but this is an Autodesk Revit ‘as-built’ model of my home, imported into the Unity game development platform I wrote about last week. If I make a change in Revit and save it, the Unity build dynamically [...]
Read moreUniversity of Western Australia hosts architecture competition in SL, gathering ideas for a real-world building
There is a lot going on at the University of WA sim in Second Life! I haven’t been able to take it all in yet, but my friend Patch Thibaud teleported me into a site where he recently installed his entry (brilliant, imho – screenshots above and below) in an architecture competition they’re hosting called [...]
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