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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.
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by Jon Brouchoud | Nov 10, 2009 | Uncategorized
They call it the ‘Open Neighborhood’ project – and it is really a site to see. This partnership between the Town of Acton and researching faculty and students from the Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning Department at Tufts University is...
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by Jon Brouchoud | Oct 28, 2009 | Uncategorized
This is a cross post from the Studio Wikitecture blog: Since 2007, the Wiki Tree software development has been funded by Studio Wikitecture and developed by i3D Inc. We’ve considered the software development process to be experimental, just as we’ve considered the...
by Jon Brouchoud | Oct 12, 2009 | Uncategorized
Check out Adam Frisby’s post about OpenSim achieving 85 avatars on a single OpenSim this week, and their hopes of reaching 100 or even 150. According to the post, these major performance and stability enhancements are largely due to 3 fixes – 1.)...
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by Jon Brouchoud | Sep 22, 2009 | Uncategorized
If you’re curious about how the OpenSim platform might be useful in your art, architecture or design related projects, we will be holding an informal open house this Wednesday, September 23rd at 9am PDT on the Architecture Islands grid. Here is the event’s...
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 | Sep 15, 2009 | Uncategorized
I was recently grid-hopping in Second Life, several of the opensim grids, Blue Mars, and Multiverse, and saw so many incredible projects that I wish I had time to cover individually! Innovative work in this area exceeded my ‘event horizon’ long ago, and I...
by Jon Brouchoud | May 27, 2009 | Uncategorized
Check out this brief macinima showing highlights of a recent tour I went on with Dr. Scott Diener’s in his Virtual Medical Centre. It is a painstakingly detailed build, with an impressive range of scripted elements that simulate real life medical procedures....
by Jon Brouchoud | Mar 19, 2009 | Uncategorized
A few weeks ago, I posted a video showing how my Revit model was imported into realxtend by Visibuild. It generated lots of interest and traffic, suggesting to me that model interoperability is an important priority for lots of us. Shortly after posting that my...
by Jon Brouchoud | Mar 2, 2009 | Uncategorized
It happened exactly 1 year, to the day I first contacted Jani Pirkola former project manager of the Realxtend team. I heard rumors late in 2007 that they had goals to accelerate the development of the ‘opensim’ platform, and one of their priorities was 3D...
