by Jon Brouchoud | Nov 14, 2011 | Uncategorized
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.
by Jon Brouchoud | Nov 11, 2011 | Uncategorized
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...
by Jon Brouchoud | Nov 10, 2011 | Uncategorized
Check out this virtual preview of the new $85 million Rutgers School of Businesses, designed by Ten Arquitectos and replicated with the Unity3D game engine.
by Jon Brouchoud | Aug 29, 2011 | Uncategorized
This long awaited ‘holy grail’ feature in Second Life has now finally arrived! The subject of numerous false starts, April fool’s jokes, and much controversy – it is now possible to import 3D models directly into Second Life.
by Jon Brouchoud | Aug 28, 2011 | Uncategorized
It’s been a while since our last post, but we’ve been hard at work on some new work we hope to publish soon! In the meantime, check out our newly renovated website: https://archvirtual.com We’ve made some exciting progress in technologies and...
by Jon Brouchoud | Jul 13, 2011 | Uncategorized
Tipodean Technologies is pleased to announce the launch of a service that can convert your OpenSim islands to COLLADA to run directly in Unity3d. With OpenSim content converted and imported into Unity3D, it can then be run within a Web site, Android/IOS, or as a stand-alone executable to increase your deployment options.
by Jon Brouchoud | Jun 5, 2011 | Uncategorized
While designing in a virtual world, with shadows looming below objects as you create and modify them, you instantly ‘feel’ their weight and visual impact in a way no other architectural technology or design method affords. When you finish modeling an idea,...
by Jon Brouchoud | May 26, 2011 | Uncategorized
Immersive Virtual Worlds as Innovation Platforms: Quotes from a paper describing the use of Second Life to design physical retail spaces for a Fortune 500 firm.
by Jon Brouchoud | Apr 15, 2011 | Uncategorized
(video intro) There were more than 42,000 kilometers separating this group if you connected our locations around the globe. For Amr Attia, in Cairo, Egypt, it was 10:00 in the evening. For Judy Cockeram, it was just 9:00 in the morning – but it was the next day for her, half-way around the world, in Auckland, New Zealand.
by Jon Brouchoud | Mar 23, 2011 | Uncategorized
This video shows French architecture students presenting virtual designs they developed during a week-long ‘intensive’ at Paris-Malaquais using the virtual world Second Life. The presentations were made during the ARCHI21 presentation at the VWBPE conference.