A Virtual Conversation Overheard – new machinima
Just for fun, I made this machinima of one of the more popular posts I wrote on my personal blog earlier this year, found here. Feel free to remix it!National School of Architecture of Marseille launches virtual school
It took me a while to stop laughing at these images for long enough to finish this post… What an exciting ‘virtual architecture’ lineup we have this weekend! On Saturday, the National School of Architecture of Marseille will be opening their new...The United States Department of State to host panel discussion for international audience: Architectural Design and International Collaboration in Virtual Worlds
The United States Department of State Bureau of International Information Programs invites you to attend: “Architectural Design and International Collaboration in Virtual Worlds.” The panel will discuss how architects utilize virtual technologies for international development partnerships. Panelists from various countries will explore the efficiency of virtual worlds and shared 3D design platforms as environments conducive to cross-cultural collaboration.
85 avatars on an OpenSim, and onward to 100… 150…
Check out Adam Frisby’s post about OpenSim achieving 85 avatars on a single OpenSim this week, and their hopes of reaching 100 or even 150. According to the post, these major performance and stability enhancements are largely due to 3 fixes – 1.)...Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-10-11
Has the economy effected your job in architectural practice? http://ow.ly/ti43 # presenting Studio Wikitecture and Second Life @be2camp – see the live stream http://ow.ly/tmBO #wikitecture #secondlife # to what extent can an open source approach be applied to...Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-09-27
Demo, Open House and Q&A on the OpenSim Architecture Islands grid: http://ow.ly/quyM # Real Architecture in Virtual Environments: How to Profit from Virtual Environments – a Second Life event: http://ow.ly/qBGQ # Free Demo, Open House and Q&A on the...Cyberspace as a vibrant, social, interactive and collaborative ‘place’ for the already virtual discipline of architecture
Visiting an architectural masterpiece, or touring a building we helped design, is one of the many great rewards of architectural study and practice. Yet even if we think of ‘architecture’ as a rich, experiential, and tangible phenomenon, the daily...Machinima: Philip Rosedale on creativity, virtual world growth, and evolving business models
I captured this brief, though very insightful, clip of Philip Rosedale addressing a ‘mixed reality’ audience streamed live from the Engage Expo in San Jose California, and in-world at the Metanomics event space. I haven’t had a chance to edit and...Spherical worlds in the new realxtend viewer release
Realxtend continues to innovate, as reported by Jani Pirkola at maxping: “The virtual earth has been flat. Now that is about to change. Is it going to be a ball? Yes, but not as you would think! realXtend surprises us by defining a new model where the avatars...