News From Arch Virtual
The latest in architectural visualization and virtual reality application development.
85 avatars on an OpenSim, and onward to 100… 150…
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.) abandoning OpenJpeg...
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-10-11
Has the economy effected your job in architectural practice? http://ow.ly/ti43 # presenting Studio Wikitecture and Second Life @be2camp - see the live stream http://ow.ly/tmBO #wikitecture #secondlife # to what extent can an open source approach be applied to...
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-09-27
Demo, Open House and Q&A on the OpenSim Architecture Islands grid: http://ow.ly/quyM # Real Architecture in Virtual Environments: How to Profit from Virtual Environments - a Second Life event: http://ow.ly/qBGQ # Free Demo, Open House and Q&A on the OpenSim...
Cyberspace as a vibrant, social, interactive and collaborative ‘place’ for the already virtual discipline of architecture
Visiting an architectural masterpiece, or touring a building we helped design, is one of the many great rewards of architectural study and practice. Yet even if we think of 'architecture' as a rich, experiential, and tangible phenomenon, the daily practice or study...
Machinima: Philip Rosedale on creativity, virtual world growth, and evolving business models
I captured this brief, though very insightful, clip of Philip Rosedale addressing a 'mixed reality' audience streamed live from the Engage Expo in San Jose California, and in-world at the Metanomics event space. I haven't had a chance to edit and publish more clips,...
Spherical worlds in the new realxtend viewer release
Realxtend continues to innovate, as reported by Jani Pirkola at maxping: "The virtual earth has been flat. Now that is about to change. Is it going to be a ball? Yes, but not as you would think! realXtend surprises us by defining a new model where the avatars can walk...
New ThinkBalm analyst report: Crossing the Chasm, One Implementation at a Time
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...
Photosynth as a free building-scale 3D scanner?
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 models. The above...
Real Architecture in Virtual Environments: How to Profit from Virtual Environments – Second Life Event
This Second Life event should be a pretty interesting, held October 2nd at 12 PM PDT, 21:00 PM CEDT, at this slurl. It will be moderated by Roy Philbin from Second Interest, and features the following panel: Kirsten Kiser, Founder and Editor-in-Chief of arcspace.com...
Toward the Sentient City, Situated Technologies, Conflux Festival and more
I was just checking in on Twitter (I'm @ARCHNetwork, btw) - and saw that I missed a tweet from NPIRL's Bettina Tizzy posting a RT from @TishShute from UgoTrade about the exciting "Toward the Sentient City" pamphlet, published by Situated Technologies. Drawing a...
Interactive-scale and fully up-to-date models of the whole world
My faith in 'the convergence' was re-affirmed by Cory Ondrejka's recent commentary on this video in his excellent collapsing geography blog. It's easy to forget, and often difficult to visualize, what these newly emerging (and converging) technologies will bring in...
Demo, Open House and Q&A on the OpenSim Architecture Islands grid
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 agenda: 10...
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-09-20
Share and promote great architecture related metaverse projects: https://archvirtual.com/?p=1524 # The Architecture of OpenSim (machinima) https://archvirtual.com/?p=1535 # Discussing 3D Mesh Imports into Second Life at Metanomics Community Forum with Reed...
Studio Wikitecture Meeting Tonight, September 17, at 6pm PDT (SLT)
The Studio Wikitecture and Treet TV communities will be gathering tonight in Second Life to discuss progress on their current Wikitecture project - the development of an urban 'master plan' for Treet Islands. They will be on hand to answer questions anyone may have,...
The Architecture of OpenSim (machinima)
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…
Architecture related destinations
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 definitely...