Thanks to Discord Schism for scripting up this Camera Postition script/HUD for viewing real-scale architecture! He also left the script open to modify and loaded with lots of variables to try out. If you sit down, it automatically disables the script – so your...
The AIArchitect online resource for members of the American Institute of Architects recently published an excellent story about architecture in Second Life (read it here). In it, they talk about the work of Guillermo Vasquez de Velasco, Assoc. AIA, who is the dean of...
I recently sent out a plea via Twitter (I’m @Keystone) to find a better way to experience real-life scale buildings. It has long been a frustration of mine (and just about everyone who tries to build rl-scale builds in SL!) that anything built at 1:1...
Architect Designs Sony’s Virtual World: http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/jan2009/gb20090123_837565.htm?chan=top+news_top+news+index+-+temp_global+business (hat tip to Bettina Tizzy for finding this) The battle to rebuild London has...
I think I’ll file this under the ‘its about time!’ category: “At Autodesk University, we billed Project Newport as a game engine for architects. Our Discovery Space was constantly buzzing with visitors who wanted to navigate Revit models using...
This looks very promising! I haven’t had a chance to test it out yet, but I had already imported models into realXtend using the Ogre mesh import, and this looks a whole lot easier than it was the last time I tried! Read the step by step tutorial on importing a...
“A virtual museum designed by undergraduate architecture students at the University of California at Berkeley. Come visit the museum at “Bear Island” in Secondlife: SLurl” Maybe we can provide a virtual critique by way of blog comments, or...
Check out this ‘mashup of Google Earth and Second Life creating a collaborative 3D data visualization.’ from the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration “Virtual worlds like Second Life allow users to show information in ways that are very...
On Wednesday December 17th, Philips will celebrate the legendary Poème Électronique on the Philips island in Second Life. A historic presentation, opening of the virtual replica and a round table discussion on how the Poème Électronique can inspire us to co-create...
