News From Arch Virtual
The latest in architectural visualization and virtual reality application development.
and…ACTION! Studio Wikitecture teams up with Treet TV for an exciting new project
Cross-posted from the Studio Wikitecture blog: Greetings team Wikitecture! We are pleased to announce an exciting new Wikitecture project, in collalboration with the entertainment network Treet TV (formerly SLCN), to design a master plan and architectural framework...
Using Virtual Reality in Residential Design
It has been over 3 years now since I started using virtual worlds as part of my real-life practice, Crescendo Design, to meet with long-distance clients, describe design ideas and more. I have since had the opportunity to work on a wide variety of purely virtual...
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-07-05
Very excited about an upcoming Steelcase + AIA interview inside of the Steelcase virtual headquarters in Second Life stay tuned! # Steelcase tour preview pics now live! (see the main page slideshow): http://archvirtual.ning.com/ # Powered by Twitter Tools.
Dispatch from Los Angeles
From DB Bailey (David Denton, AIA) July 3, 2009 We’ve been back from Egypt several weeks now. The preliminary construction documents are being completed at PUD Consultants’ office in Cairo. I’ve been getting up very early in the morning to have two or three hours of...
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-06-28
Residential Design + Revit + Virtual Reality: http://www.crescendodesign.com @crescendodesign # Architecture: The Impossible Made Possible - join us for this exciting panel discussion, starting in 15 minutes... http://ow.ly/fVKo # The panel discussion has started!...
Architecture: The Impossible Made Possible – Screenshots from the Tour and Panel Discussion
Here is a slideshow (link) from today's panel/tour - "Architecture: The Impossible Made Possible," organized by Bettina Tizzy and Not Possible in Real Life (NPIRL). Thank you Bettina, and to all who attended!
Interactive Architecture Demo in Second Life: A Touch-Configurable Structure
This notice from Time Sands: On Wednesday 6/24 at 5 PM Second Life Time (8 PM U.S. Eastern Time), SL builder and architect Times Sands will demonstrate the first of a line of new technologies that will vastly expand the range of designs that virtual...
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-06-21
Upcoming field trips to well designed virtual spaces: https://archvirtual.com/?p=1386 # Please cast your votes in the next 24 hours for the current Wikitecture project! http://ow.ly/eqZ7 # RT @Metanomics:at 1:00 PM SL 10 pm CET - Look at Blue Mars with Jim Sink &...
Studio Wikitecture dialing in on final booth design for SL6B
Studio Wikitecture's newest project, to design a booth for SL6b has brought in some fantastic design ideas! Now we need your votes to help decide which to finalize. Learn more about how to cast your votes at the link below, but hurry! We need to have all votes cast...
Upcoming field trips to well designed virtual spaces
This post is from DiJodi Dubratt via The ARCH Network community site. Read the invite here, but join the community site to stay tuned for more information about these upcoming field trips and more. http://archvirtual.ning.com/ Hi everybody! Pam Broviak and I have...
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-06-14
looking forward to testing out @VastPark soon! # AIA Architects Handbook of Professional Practice, 1994 - "it is not uncommon for PC's to be equipped with 8-16 megabytes of RAM" # AIA Architects Handbook of Professional Practice, 1994 "Hard disks typically have...
Your Network, Your Imagination… and screenshots, and videos, and discussions, and….
Have a project you want to promote? An idea, or screenshots to share? A new machinima you made? Why not use the social network behind The ARCH Network to promote and share? Its easy, and its free. Click HERE to get started! Here's just a quick copy/paste of some...
realXtend, VastPark, Unity3D
As we await the much anticipated launch of the new realXtend viewer, this teaser clip gives us a glimpse into what is to come. What's cool about this is that realXtend features the capacity to importing Ogre .mesh format. With some know-how, just about any industry...
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-06-07
RT @TASCHENAmerica @Guggenheim! follow them to hear about a Frank Lloyd Wright announcement coming next week # Architectural educators from around the world gather to discuss uses of virtual worlds and architectural education http://ow.ly/aSVa # Today at 1pm PDT:...
Studio Wikitecture Wins Linden Prize, Initiates a New Project
If you aren't already familiar with Studio Wikitecture, we are an open group, composed of a diverse range of individuals from varying disciplines, interested in exploring the application of an open-source paradigm to the design and production of both real and virtual...
Architectural Educators from Portugal, USA, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Scotland, Denmark, Croatia, Russia, Italy, France, and Germany gather to discuss virtual architectural education
This was a truly remarkable session, deserving of greater coverage than this post, but this is a start! The group first gathered at Moira Hunter's ArchiTECool parcel on Architecture Island, then to a Studio Wikitecture demo, then on to tour the work that...