News From Arch Virtual
The latest in architectural visualization and virtual reality application development.
More Realtime Architectural Visualization in Unity3D (videos)
Here is a collection of architectural visualizations I've had bookmarked over the past few months that show some of what is possible with realtime rendering in architectural visualization. If you have a realtime architectural visualization project you'd like to share,...
ARCHI CHAT hosts guest speaker Jacques Macaire of HUMANBE – April 25
ARCHI21 has the pleasure to host their second ARCHI CHAT session.
My advice to Unity3D
Unity sent a survey this morning, and here’s what I wrote:
Villa Tugenhdat, by Mies van der Rohe: Realtime 3D virtual tour published to Flash with Unity3D
Check out this realtime virtual tour of Villa Tugenhdat, by famed architect Mies van der Rohe, build published to Flash with Unity3D.
ARCHI CHAT: Open discussion with Q&A based on 3 case studies involving Unity3D, Second Life and OpenSim for real world architecture projects
Jon Brouchoud, of Arch Virtual invites you to an open discussion with questions and answers based around 3 recent case studies of real world architectural projects that have made use of 3D immersive technologies in architectural practice and collaboration.
(Kickstarter Update #1) Explore Dubuque, Iowa’s Historic Millwork District with Virtual CARADCO
Using video games to visualize architecture? Why not? That’s what Main Street MMO is all about.
$60 OpenSim Prefab Regions: The Elements Series
These sim packages are designed to provide flexible, modern environments for learning, enterprise, and private development in OpenSim and are now available at a significantly discounted rate. Each full sim package is just $60 USD, and is delivered as an opensim OAR...
Kickstarter launch! Real Cities in Realtime 3D: Main Street MMO
Introducing Main Street MMO: Real cities, in realtime 3D.
There are so many incredible sci-fi, war games and medieval adventures available today, with amazing complexity, detail and realism.
TL;DR Conf – a one day event about the emerging technology cycle driven by Post-PC devices and HTML5
TL;DR Conf is a one day event about the emerging technology cycle driven by Post-PC devices and HTML5.
Realtime Cities Initiative: Virtual Dubuque
Introducing Virtual Dubuque, a premiere development of our new Virtual Cities initiative. This new community resource will provide free and easy to access windows into interactive, customizable 3D models of cities.
Introducing the ArchTech Engine: Transforming buildings, cities and geography into realtime 3D environments
I am very excited to announce the launch of our new Arch Tech Engine (intro video above), a technology that transforms buildings, cities and geography into realtime 3D environments that are easily accessible, and can be embedded on your website, or deployed to a tablet.
12 Arch Virtual Predictions for 2012
Thoughts and predictions around our newly emerging app-etite, new shiny things, HMD, AR and.. what’s in a name?
Results of Arch Virtual’s 2011 New Year’s Predictions: 7 out of 11
I didn’t do too bad on last year’s predictions (read the full post here).
ArchiCAD and Revit to Unity3D: more about architectural visualization with Unity3D and comments from readers
Below the fold are some additional points raised by YouTube, Twitter and blog commenters. One additional point I want to make is the distinction between Unity3D best practices for game design vs. best practices for architectural visualization.
State of Play: Can we import BIM models into realtime Unity3D game engine?
Following last week’s post about the new Rutgers School of Business we published into Unity3D game engine, there were a lot of questions about whether we had imported the BIM file directly from Revit, or if there was an intermediate process necessary to make that work.
Customer-Created Design: Virtual reality and realtime design enables seniors to design their own community spaces
There's a fantastic snippet in this video, about 2 minutes and 58 seconds in, that does a great job of capturing the spirit of this project. This is a group of senior citizens looking at the virtual world of Second Life projected on a wall in front of them, and you...