by Jon Brouchoud | Aug 7, 2008 | Uncategorized
I haven’t had a chance to review this yet, but wanted to pass along right away a link to Digital Urban’s post announcing their newest in their series of UCL Working Papers available HERE. “The world of Geographic Information (GI) Science has changed....
by Jon Brouchoud | Aug 2, 2008 | Uncategorized
Darb Dabney is a veritable whirlwind of energy when it comes to mirroring Berkeley, California in a virtual environment. If avatars ever walk the streets of virtual Berkeley, there will be a gleeful Darb showing it off and giving tours! I am increasingly confident...
by Jon Brouchoud | Jul 28, 2008 | Uncategorized
[youtube = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_r7mkSNRenE] Wow, check out the above video! This and more exciting news from the seemingly tireless Hidenori Watanave: “I and student team of Tokyo Metropolitan Univ. are developing 3D image database of “Oscar...
by Jon Brouchoud | Jul 22, 2008 | Uncategorized
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iw0zDu28kzE] Check out Mario Gerosa’s interview, part of a Mission completed in the CheckinArchitecture project, submitted by Fabio Falzone and Jacopo Fontana. From their YouTube description: “But what about...
by Jon Brouchoud | Jul 17, 2008 | Uncategorized
This just in from Lotja Loon: Thursday, 07-17-2008, 22.00 h european time, Campus Seccondlearning, Indire http://slurl.com/secondlife/INDIRE/94/114/23 Antoni Gaudí – there are no straight lines in nature Antoni Gaudí (1852 – 1926), most outstanding...
by Jon Brouchoud | Jul 14, 2008 | Uncategorized
We had an outstanding range of community-submitted resources this week! Thanks so much for sharing the inside scoop on these projects, and keep it up! It all started with Lotja Loon telling us about ‘Architecture and Design Classes: Bauhaus, Le Corbusier, Frank...
by Jon Brouchoud | Jul 14, 2008 | Uncategorized
Martin Purnell and Associates, a real life development firm located in Chicago, Illinois, opens virtual office on the Etopia sim in Second Life. The construction is nearly complete on the virtual model of the Future Green Chatham homes. They hope to begin building the...
by Jon Brouchoud | Jul 14, 2008 | Uncategorized
[youtube = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHWMapSAHSU] This just in from Hidenori Watanave (including video above): “Yesterday I invited “Atelier Ten Architects” for my laboratory of Tokyo Metropolitan University, and they made a special lecture of...
by Jon Brouchoud | Jul 12, 2008 | Uncategorized
This just in from Bennet Dynamo, who created an incredible gallery for this exhibit (see more screenshots below): “I am honored to host the first show at the foundation gallery on depo park 4 presenting a selection of Lucien Herve’s fine photography of...
by Jon Brouchoud | Jul 11, 2008 | Uncategorized
We really, really need your help on this one! I am confident that if the readers of this blog collectively vote as a unified voice to push 3D Model Interoperability as a priority item for Linden Lab, we will be heard. You all know that Importing and exporting models...
