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by Jon Brouchoud | Apr 13, 2009 | Uncategorized
Autodesk Island has been online on the Second Life platform since 2006, and was originally designed and built by Clear Ink to help showcase virtual environments during Autodesk University. To visit Autodesk Island, click the link below then click ‘Sign Up’...
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by Jon Brouchoud | Apr 13, 2009 | Uncategorized
The virtual winds of change are blowing, and its time to re-activate, refresh, and re-invent many of the various efforts associated with this blog, Architecture Islands, the in-world RL Architects group, and more. In the days ahead, I plan to introduce a more...
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by Jon Brouchoud | Mar 31, 2009 | Uncategorized
Cross post from the Studio Wikitecture blog: A Big Congratulations goes out to the following contributors to the University of Alabama’s Virtual Classroom Project. After two rounds of voting the following spreadsheet illustrates the breakdown down in winnings. ...
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by Jon Brouchoud | Mar 31, 2009 | Uncategorized
Here is a video of the presentation I gave last weekend at the VWBPE convention , posted by tree.tv, in both a streaming format and high-def download, available here: http://www.treet.tv/shows/bpe/bpe2009_varchitecture_27mar09/ Other presentations captured by Tree.tv...
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by Jon Brouchoud | Mar 30, 2009 | Uncategorized
Don’t miss this! It is TONIGHT, Monday March 30th between 5pm and 8pm SLT. This project is sure to become a bar-raising effort for demonstrating the benefits of using virtual worlds in architectural education. I’m aware of at least 14 architecture...
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by Jon Brouchoud | Mar 25, 2009 | Uncategorized
Everywhere I turn these days, someone is reminding me that virtual worlds like Second Life or Opensim will never reach ‘mainstream’ adoption until everyday ordinary web users can access them through special plug-ins downloaded for those precious 2d web...
by Jon Brouchoud | Mar 25, 2009 | Uncategorized
Welcome to ARCHviews, a new podcast format where I take to the streets of the metaverse and talk with architects and designers exploring architecture of all forms – real or virtual. Today I talk to Kirsten Kiser, editor-in-chief of arcspace.com about her...
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...
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by Jon Brouchoud | Mar 15, 2009 | Uncategorized
I had a professor in architecture school who taught a ‘Drawing in Architecture’ class, and talked a lot about the importance of sketching. The basis of his argument was that the process of sketching an architectural form results in the shortest possible...
by Jon Brouchoud | Mar 7, 2009 | Uncategorized
Last week, I wrote about MellaniuM’s use of the Unreal engine in architectural visualization. Yesterday, the American Insitute of Architect’s newsletter AIArchitect covers another story about virtual worlds, this time about HKS’s decision to license...
