by Jon Brouchoud | Jan 28, 2011 | Uncategorized
This could be quite useful for troubleshooting problems on-site during construction as well. I can imagine a contractor scanning an area in question, enabling the architect to open a 3D model of the structure from a computer back at the office, and being able to rotate and orbit around the model to better understand it’s context, then suggesting solutions by mapping additional 3D information into the model, or folding it into the project’s Building Information Model and doing a differential comparison to find possible solutions.
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 | Dec 21, 2009 | Uncategorized
Following Friday’s “Microsoft Bing and Virtual Earth” post, I wanted to add a bit from Virtual Worlds News, which discovered that Microsoft may be “exploring ways to make Xbox Live avatars more like their users.” citing their...
by Jon Brouchoud | Dec 19, 2009 | Uncategorized
I think the above video gets most interesting (to me anyway) about 2:06 in, proving that 3DVIA ‘Scenes’ appears to take the integration of immersive, avatar-based, shared experiences seriously – even including realtime chat and geo-specific...
by Jon Brouchoud | Sep 23, 2009 | Uncategorized
For all of you early adopters out there, this new report from ThinkBalm is definitely worth a read. If rich, immersive, 3D, virtual environments “The core question we set out to answer is, “How are early adopters overcoming barriers to adoption of immersive...
by Jon Brouchoud | Sep 23, 2009 | Uncategorized
Following yesterday’s post about urban models generated from point clouds, I noticed this post on Digital Urban about the possibility of using Microsoft’s Photosynth as a way of capturing these point clouds (in this camporting those clouds as full 3D...
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…