News From Arch Virtual
The latest in architectural visualization and virtual reality application development.
New Sandbox for Architecture Islands
Come check the new Architecture Islands sandbox! If you're just getting started, this is a great location to learn the ropes and get to know the building tools. The parcel is set to Auto-Return every 120 minutes, so be careful to save your creations occasionally...
Land Available for Rent on Architecture Islands in Second Life
Sorry for the delay, but here are the parcels currently available on Architecture Islands. Rent is 1.5 lindens per 1 square meter, and is due on the month-date you start renting (if you start renting on the 5th, your rent is due every 5th of the month). Simple...
Machinima Manifesto: *WE* Shape our Virtual Buildings
In this podcast, I review some of the reasons I remain so optimistic about the future of virtual worlds, and describe the fundamental characteristics I believe make user-generated 3D worlds a game changing new standard every organization should be exploring - with or...
Wikitecture 4.0: Re-Inventing the Virtual Classroom
New Wikitecture Project Kick-off event: October 23nd at 5:00pm Pacific (SL-time) With so many universities and academic institutions from around the world using virtual environments like Second Life for teaching and research, many have started to wonder what, exactly...
AIA (American Institute of Architects) Chapter Endorses Second Life Design Competition
From Dakota Dreamscape: Welcome to the Dakota Skies Cultural Center ~~Chaplet Design Competition Theme: A Spiritual Respite Interpretation of theme is at the designer's discretion but must be respectful and meditative. Contemplative but not religious. For a frame of...
Be2Camp Starting Soon! Exploring Web 2.0 and the Built Environment
Be2camp is free to register and free to attend , and will be starting in just a few hours! This will be a BarCamp style 'Unconference' to promote the use of Web 2.0 technologies in the Built Environment (eg Architecture, Construction, Engineering, Facilities...
Nicolas Schoffer Gallery Opening
Nicolas Schoffer Gallery Opening in Second Life, Saturday, September 13, 2008. More info HERE. Slurl HERE. "Like most pioneers, when the young 24 year old Hungarian painter Nicolas Schöffer went to Paris in 1936, it’s not likely that he could have imagined he was...
UNIT 13
This video is now officially my favorite Second Life machinima of all time (not just because they mention Wikitecture 😉 Their use of hybrid machinima is incredibly well done, and the way they portray the architectural possibilities of virtual space is very...
Be2Camp: Exploring Web 2.0 in the built environment
Interest in the upcoming Be2Camp on October 10th is growing rapidly, and I would highly recommend joining the community HERE to be informed of future updates on the agenda as it emerges. Even if you can't make it to London, we are hoping to stream some of the content...
S,M,L,XL, SL
Here we have Lebbeus Woods, who "continues to work at a small drafting table in a corner of his apartment here, a solitary, monklike figure churning out increasingly abstract architectural fantasies..." Would someone please get this man a Second Life account? He even...
Still on the Stump
Be sure to check out this month's issue of Business Week's 'SmallBiz' publication, for it's cover story, "First Stop: Second Life," which explores how several small business (including Crescendo Design!) are using Second Life to prototype real life designs. I was...
Review of Fallingwater Replica in Second Life
Thanks to Lotja Loon for sending her review of the replication of Fallingwater, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for Edgar J. Kaufmann Sr. by Ethos Erlanger and his and his partners Lox Salomon and Ty Jaehun. Screenshot by Derek Hotger, http://derekhotger.blogg.com/
Prototyping a Real World Urban Development in Second Life
In June, when I was on a panel discussion with Eric Gordon, during Linden Lab's birthday celebration, I was very inspired and impressed with his work - especially given my own interest in the use of virtual worlds for collaboration. Now they are taking on a new...
Caleb Booker calls for wider adoption of virtual worlds by architects
In a recent post, Caleb Booker suggests: "Wider adoption by architects is long overdue. Initial experiments in fast prototyping of architectural designs, and of bringing clients on very early tours, is very promising." Obviously, we couldn't agree more. Read the full...
The Renaissance of Geographic Information: Neogeography, Gaming and Second Life: Newly Published UCL Working Paper Available for Free Download
I haven't had a chance to review this yet, but wanted to pass along right away a link to Digital Urban's post announcing their newest in their series of UCL Working Papers available HERE. "The world of Geographic Information (GI) Science has changed. It has...
LiDAR Generated Sculpties
Darb Dabney is a veritable whirlwind of energy when it comes to mirroring Berkeley, California in a virtual environment. If avatars ever walk the streets of virtual Berkeley, there will be a gleeful Darb showing it off and giving tours! I am increasingly confident...