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by Jon Brouchoud | Feb 27, 2011 | Uncategorized
As the pendulum swings back into Second Life for some exciting new consulting projects, I’m reminded just how fun it is to build with prims and how much potential virtual environments hold for architectural practice and collaboration. You can quite literally *feel* the space as it takes shape, understanding and perceiving it in a way that no other medium affords.
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by Jon Brouchoud | Feb 9, 2011 | Uncategorized
We’ve been hearing a lot of positive feedback following the release of Architectural Beginner’s Kit 1 and Architectural Beginner’s Kit 2 packages and tutorials for use within the Unity3D game engine. In fact, those who purchased the kit have reported reductions in development time (up to 2 weeks) and development cost savings when compared with having to develop these assets from scratch.
by Jon Brouchoud | Dec 17, 2010 | Uncategorized
[Updated: No Longer Available – New Updated Kit Coming Soon!]
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by Jon Brouchoud | Dec 3, 2010 | Uncategorized
The Frank Lloyd Wright Virtual Museum, which was recently granted a licensing agreement with the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation (and later attained official 501(c)3 non-profit status from the IRS) was served a cease & desist order by lawyers representing the Frank...
by Jon Brouchoud | Nov 26, 2010 | Uncategorized
[Update – Kits 1 and 2 are no longer available, but a new updated Kit will be available soon!]
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by Jon Brouchoud | Oct 21, 2010 | Uncategorized
[UPDATE: We have now published an eBook about Architectural Visualization with Unity3D (including a chapter about Oculus Rift) that can be purchased HERE.] I’ve been swamped these past few weeks with a variety of projects in Unity3D, Second Life, and OpenSim...
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by Jon Brouchoud | Jun 30, 2010 | Uncategorized
H-Town, the OpenSim neighborhood previously posted HERE, is now open to the public! This is a most impressive application of building real-world architecture using the OpenSim platform, and by far the largest expanse of contiguous virtual land dedicated to it,...
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by Jon Brouchoud | Jun 24, 2010 | Uncategorized
Here are several before and after images of the ‘Porchdog’ residence, prototyped in Second Life by the Architecture in Virtual Worlds community. We built a virtual replica of this original design by Marlon Blackwell Architects, which was published to Open...
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by Jon Brouchoud | Jun 24, 2010 | Uncategorized
The headline-grabbing aLoft Hotel project, first prototyped in Second Life before construction started, can now be visited in the real world (and has been open for quite some time now). Starwood Hotels was the first to take their hotel’s architectural concept...
by Jon Brouchoud | May 3, 2010 | Uncategorized
Today, Linden Lab announced that mesh imports, or the ability to import models created in external 3D modeling apps will be available for beta testing Q2 2010. For architects and other AEC professionals and educators, this has been the long awaited ‘holy...
