News From Arch Virtual
The latest in architectural visualization and virtual reality application development.
RL Municipal Public Works Panel in SL
Thursday, March 20th at 5pm SLT (PDT) at Life 2.0 (registration is free HERE) We will be discussing municipal public works applications in use or being developed within Second Life, followed by a lively discussion about the possible uses of Second Life for city and...
Wikitects in the Windy City and Life 2.0
If you happen to be in the Chicago area, Ryan and I will be at the Illinois Institute of Technology on Tuesday, April 1st (6pm Central) talking about Wikitecture, and how virtual worlds and web 2.0 will revolutionize the architecture industry. If you can't make it to...
Is the ‘Invasion’ of Real Life Architects and Architecture a Sad Chapter in the History of Second Life?
Does anyone remember the Society for Virtual Architecture? I sure do. I loved it. I was lucky enough to find my way to a meeting on my very first day in Second Life. I was in the midst of building this hideous replica of a real life project I was working on at the...
The Final Design: Wikitecture 3.0…. thank you!
I just wanted to thank all the contributors on the OAN Nepal Challenge for all their hard work and dedication over the last couple months. The following images are of the final boards submitted to the OAN project site (larger images here). You can be your own judge,...
Competition Details: ‘Design for an Eco-Friendly Community’
I'm sincerely honored to have been invited to jury this most exciting competition! I know firsthand how exhilarating it can be to work on a project like this in Second Life, especially given the collaborative nature they're inviting. This is an absolutely perfect use...
Architects Enslave Programmers to Build an AutoCAD Import Tool for Second Life, Henshin IV Released
[youtube = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNKoP_-eAUc] Hats off to the folks at AI Design Studio. Not only because they have been working so hard to develop an AutoCAD import tool for Second Life, but also because they make such entertaining machinima promotional...
Design for an Eco-friendly Community
Design a structure in Second Life - build the structure in China and Hawaii in Real Life! arcspace.com and ecolandnow.com, in collaboration with INBAR - International Network for Bamboo and Rattan, invite architects, designers and students to take part in an...
Architecture Firm CKI Teams up with the Government of Thailand to Build Massive Virtual Planet
The massive $250 million project, called 'CyberCity' won't be open until 2010. Somehow, upon hearing this news (link to full story), I feel a sense of vindication for all my ranting and raving about why architects should be taking virtual worlds seriously, and why an...
Drumroll please… realXtend + OpenSim = Importing of Proper 3D Models
[youtube = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MM6DxA7UB7c] I'm not a techie guy, but I know what 'import proper 3D models' means, and I know what a tremendous impact it will have on our industry and beyond. We've heard about emulator plug-ins that enable SL-like models...
From Common Interests to Common Borders
Architecture Islands, arcspace and Eolus One are announcing that they will be moving to a new location on the Second Life grid, and will now be sharing common borders as a contiguous group of islands. The move is part of a concerted effort to unite some of the...
Updated Reflexive [Tile] Script
Oze Aichi shared this revised 'Reflexive Wall Tile' script, which you can find HERE. Also, check out Far Link's ideas about this concept HERE.
Wikitecture Progress Video, and a Call for Sponsors
[youtube = http://youtube.com/watch?v=amCi90zH3VI] Hello everyone! As you may already know, the third Wikitecture experiment using our new 3D-Wiki technology will be wrapping up in the next few weeks, and we are already looking forward to the next experiment. If you...
Open Source Scripts: The DynaFleur Revealed
Many thanks to desdemona Enfield and the DynaFleur team for sharing these 2 awesome scripts! I rezzed them out and started playing with them - its quite addicting! I can imagine all sorts of wonderful applications of these. Here is the reflexPanel script and here is...
3D Wiki, Demo and Tour Tomorrow (2/8) at 10:30 AM SL-time
Join us tomorrow for a demo of the 3D Wiki (the Wiki-Tree), and a review of the designs submitted so far for the OAN Challenge we're working on for Wikitecture 3.0. The competition deadline is February 29, so there is still time to provide your input! You don't have...
Help Wanted
Hi everyone! I'm looking for a little help. As you know, there has been a lot of great projects happening in SL related to architecture that I just haven't had time to cover on this blog. I'm wondering if there is someone out there who would be interested in writing...
Reflexive Tile Wall, by Oze Aichi
Many thanks to Oze Aichi at The Tech for sharing his 'Reflexive Wall' scripts! Build your own by simply dropping THIS SCRIPT inside of a prim, then name that prim 'Reflexive Tile'. Then drop that prim inside of another prim with THIS SCRIPT in it. Thanks Oze! Thanks...