by Jon Brouchoud | Apr 11, 2013 | Uncategorized
Second Life is a killer app for Oculus VR. Now, before you skip ahead to post a comment about how SL has been overrun by furries and 14 year olds, take a moment to scroll through these screenshots, and watch some of the machinima below.
by Jon Brouchoud | Jan 2, 2012 | Uncategorized
Thoughts and predictions around our newly emerging app-etite, new shiny things, HMD, AR and.. what’s in a name?
by Jon Brouchoud | Feb 6, 2011 | Uncategorized
The convergence of the game industry and the metaverse will be a Big Bang for the 3D web, but if you’re coming to this from the metaverse side of the fence and not a hardcore gamer, wrapping your mind around the mechanics and current state of the game industry can be pretty challenging.
by Jon Brouchoud | Dec 28, 2010 | Uncategorized
2010 was a year of growth and advancement for virtual environments, but it was also a time of uncertainty and transition. While I often refer to the metaverse as an open frontier, this year I kept thinking that we were still in a stage of discovery, and had only...
by Jon Brouchoud | Nov 4, 2010 | Uncategorized
$2,000 is the current bounty for free/open Microsoft Kinect drivers (via Adafruit Industries), which really jarred some memories for me. Whatever happened to ‘Hands Free 3D’ – the “prototypical interface” that enabled the control of...
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...
by Jon Brouchoud | Dec 8, 2009 | Uncategorized
The barrier to entry just keeps getting lower for for architects, engineers and construction professionals to further employ MMO (massively, multi-player, online) environments in design collaboration, education, visualization and architectural discourse. Here are a few bits and pieces of the puzzle that I’m keeping an eye on.
by Jon Brouchoud | Sep 17, 2009 | Uncategorized
Sims at a fraction of the cost? No prim size limits? Saving and restoring entire sims to and from my own hard drive? OpenSim is where its at, and its improving at a pretty impressive rate. With the likes of IBM, Intel, Microsoft and even Linden Lab itself making contributions toward strengthening OpenSim, it certainly seems to have a chance at making it to prime time if it hasn’t already. We’re now offering 6 sims at $150/month on the OpenSim Architecture Grid…
by Jon Brouchoud | Jun 3, 2009 | Uncategorized
If you aren’t already familiar with Studio Wikitecture, we are an open group, composed of a diverse range of individuals from varying disciplines, interested in exploring the application of an open-source paradigm to the design and production of both real and...
by Jon Brouchoud | Jun 3, 2009 | Uncategorized
This was a truly remarkable session, deserving of greater coverage than this post, but this is a start! The group first gathered at Moira Hunter’s ArchiTECool parcel on Architecture Island, then to a Studio Wikitecture demo, then on to tour the work that...