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by Jon Brouchoud | Mar 30, 2009 | Uncategorized
Don’t miss this! It is TONIGHT, Monday March 30th between 5pm and 8pm SLT. This project is sure to become a bar-raising effort for demonstrating the benefits of using virtual worlds in architectural education. I’m aware of at least 14 architecture...
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by Jon Brouchoud | Mar 25, 2009 | Uncategorized
Everywhere I turn these days, someone is reminding me that virtual worlds like Second Life or Opensim will never reach ‘mainstream’ adoption until everyday ordinary web users can access them through special plug-ins downloaded for those precious 2d web...
by Jon Brouchoud | Mar 25, 2009 | Uncategorized
Welcome to ARCHviews, a new podcast format where I take to the streets of the metaverse and talk with architects and designers exploring architecture of all forms – real or virtual. Today I talk to Kirsten Kiser, editor-in-chief of arcspace.com about her...
by Jon Brouchoud | Mar 19, 2009 | Uncategorized
A few weeks ago, I posted a video showing how my Revit model was imported into realxtend by Visibuild. It generated lots of interest and traffic, suggesting to me that model interoperability is an important priority for lots of us. Shortly after posting that my...
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by Jon Brouchoud | Mar 15, 2009 | Uncategorized
I had a professor in architecture school who taught a ‘Drawing in Architecture’ class, and talked a lot about the importance of sketching. The basis of his argument was that the process of sketching an architectural form results in the shortest possible...
by Jon Brouchoud | Mar 7, 2009 | Uncategorized
Last week, I wrote about MellaniuM’s use of the Unreal engine in architectural visualization. Yesterday, the American Insitute of Architect’s newsletter AIArchitect covers another story about virtual worlds, this time about HKS’s decision to license...
by Jon Brouchoud | Mar 5, 2009 | Uncategorized
“This is an introduction by Lauren Stokes to Architecture For Humanity’s own interactive digital globe that will host models from their Open Architecture Network. Using X3D Earth and Open Street Map, web3D students sponsored by GeoSherpa are helping...
by Jon Brouchoud | Mar 2, 2009 | Uncategorized
It happened exactly 1 year, to the day I first contacted Jani Pirkola former project manager of the Realxtend team. I heard rumors late in 2007 that they had goals to accelerate the development of the ‘opensim’ platform, and one of their priorities was 3D...
by Jon Brouchoud | Mar 1, 2009 | Uncategorized
We’re no longer talking just about augmenting physical reality. Many virtual spaces are effectively replacing the use of entire physical buildings and spaces they would otherwise occupy. Not only that, but they are performing better and saving companies big...
by Jon Brouchoud | Feb 27, 2009 | Uncategorized
Are browser-based virtual environments the way of the future for virtual design visualization? Here is a brief overview of 4 of the many emerging platforms or related services to watch, and some thoughts about how they fit into the bigger picture of virtual worlds...
