by Jon Brouchoud | May 29, 2008 | Uncategorized
Earlier this year, The Tech Museum of Innovation invited Second Life residents to collaborate around the design of exhibits for their real life museum in San Jose for an upcoming exhibition, ‘Art, Film & Music’. They had already built a replica of...
by Jon Brouchoud | May 27, 2008 | Uncategorized
Eikongraphia recently published MoPo 2008 , listing The Arch as number 14 on the list! We’re in good company too! 1. BLDGBLOG 2. City of Sound 3. Archidose 4. Pruned 5. Interactive Architecture 6. Architecture.mnp 7. Subtopia 8. Life Without Buildings 9....
by Jon Brouchoud | May 15, 2008 | Uncategorized
One of the most frequently requested services I receive as a freelance builder and consultant in Second Life is to replicate real-life buildings. While I’ve written a lot (here, and here) about the potential for a new (non-replica) language of purely virtual...
by Jon Brouchoud | May 12, 2008 | Uncategorized
Here are a few tremors from this week’s roundup from the virtual frontier: BusinessWeek – “Moving beyond Second Life marketing, many companies are infiltrating virtual worlds for employee meetings, mixers, and recruiting.”...
by Jon Brouchoud | May 11, 2008 | Uncategorized
“Integrating Physical and Virtual Worlds to Add Real Value to Buildings” Serious Games Institute Technology Workshop – Smart Buildings – Strategies for Saving Costs & Generating Revenue This coming Wednesday , May 14th at 4:30am SL-time, an...
by Jon Brouchoud | May 1, 2008 | Uncategorized
Assuming I have established a viable case for the 3D virtual workplace in post 1 and 2, what about the actual planning, design and virtual architecture required to support it? What are the new characteristics of this environment that deserve consideration when...
by Jon Brouchoud | May 1, 2008 | Uncategorized
Lets start with a brief thought trial before I get too far. Take a look at this familiar list of just some of the businesses who have, at some point, had a presence in Second Life: Accenture, AccuWeather, ABN AMRO, Aegon, Ajax Football Club, Alcatel Lucent, AMD,...
by Jon Brouchoud | Apr 30, 2008 | Uncategorized
[see also part 2 and part 3] I’m often asked if it is actually possible to make a living practicing virtual architecture in Second Life. As it turns out, I have indeed become quite a virtual Bedouin lately, and have been lucky enough to derive an equal or...
by Jon Brouchoud | Apr 22, 2008 | Uncategorized
These past few months have brought about a rather exciting surge of announcements and renewed energy around the OpenSIM project, the open source virtual world platform. Though it is still alpha level code, the future potential is obvious, especially for those of us...
by Jon Brouchoud | Apr 8, 2008 | Uncategorized
I never realized just how much I actually didn’t know about Second Life until I watched Torley Linden’s Second Life Tutorials. Not only are they crystal clear in direction, but Torley keeps them entertaining and upbeat as well. If you’re totally new,...