by Jon Brouchoud | Jun 24, 2008 | Uncategorized
I’m super excited to have the opportunity to be on a panel for Second Life’s 5th birthday party, called “Urbanism, Architecture, Planning: How Second Life Can Help Build the Urban Landscape of the First Life–and Vice Versa” See you...
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by Jon Brouchoud | Jun 18, 2008 | Uncategorized
Be sure to ‘Like’ Arch Virtual on Facebook to learn more about architecture virtual worlds! You can now visit a free virtual tour of Villa Tugenhdat, by Mies van der Rohe, by clicking HERE! The model was downloaded the model from Google 3D Warehouse...
by Jon Brouchoud | Jun 11, 2008 | Uncategorized
[update: over at NWN, this post includes an explanation of how to get dynamic shadows running on your machine, as well as some ideas regarding the potential troubles and opportunities associated with dynamic shadows] I noticed this over on Torley’s blog. Dynamic...
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by Jon Brouchoud | Jun 4, 2008 | Uncategorized
From Studio Wikitecture blog: It is with great pleasure I bring you the news that Studio Wikitecture’s entry in the Open Architecture Network Challenge was awarded the ‘Founder’s Award’ as well as ‘3rd Place’ for our design of the Nyaya Tele-Medicine facility in...
by Jon Brouchoud | May 29, 2008 | Uncategorized
Earlier this year, The Tech Museum of Innovation invited Second Life residents to collaborate around the design of exhibits for their real life museum in San Jose for an upcoming exhibition, ‘Art, Film & Music’. They had already built a replica of...
by Jon Brouchoud | May 27, 2008 | Uncategorized
Eikongraphia recently published MoPo 2008 , listing The Arch as number 14 on the list! We’re in good company too! 1. BLDGBLOG 2. City of Sound 3. Archidose 4. Pruned 5. Interactive Architecture 6. Architecture.mnp 7. Subtopia 8. Life Without Buildings 9....
by Jon Brouchoud | May 15, 2008 | Uncategorized
One of the most frequently requested services I receive as a freelance builder and consultant in Second Life is to replicate real-life buildings. While I’ve written a lot (here, and here) about the potential for a new (non-replica) language of purely virtual...
by Jon Brouchoud | May 12, 2008 | Uncategorized
Here are a few tremors from this week’s roundup from the virtual frontier: BusinessWeek – “Moving beyond Second Life marketing, many companies are infiltrating virtual worlds for employee meetings, mixers, and recruiting.”...
by Jon Brouchoud | May 11, 2008 | Uncategorized
“Integrating Physical and Virtual Worlds to Add Real Value to Buildings” Serious Games Institute Technology Workshop – Smart Buildings – Strategies for Saving Costs & Generating Revenue This coming Wednesday , May 14th at 4:30am SL-time, an...
by Jon Brouchoud | May 1, 2008 | Uncategorized
Assuming I have established a viable case for the 3D virtual workplace in post 1 and 2, what about the actual planning, design and virtual architecture required to support it? What are the new characteristics of this environment that deserve consideration when...
