I am very excited to announce the launch of our new Arch Tech Engine (intro video above), a technology that transforms buildings, cities and geography into realtime 3D environments that are easily accessible, and can be embedded on your website, or deployed to a tablet.
Thoughts and predictions around our newly emerging app-etite, new shiny things, HMD, AR and.. what’s in a name?
Below the fold are some additional points raised by YouTube, Twitter and blog commenters. One additional point I want to make is the distinction between Unity3D best practices for game design vs. best practices for architectural visualization.
Check out this virtual preview of the new $85 million Rutgers School of Businesses, designed by Ten Arquitectos and replicated with the Unity3D game engine.
Tipodean Technologies is pleased to announce the launch of a service that can convert your OpenSim islands to COLLADA to run directly in Unity3d. With OpenSim content converted and imported into Unity3D, it can then be run within a Web site, Android/IOS, or as a stand-alone executable to increase your deployment options.
Immersive Virtual Worlds as Innovation Platforms: Quotes from a paper describing the use of Second Life to design physical retail spaces for a Fortune 500 firm.
The Veteran-Civilian Dialogue space would soon be hosting some of the deepest and potentially life-changing conversations on the grid, and the architecture of this space would need to play an integral role in organizing, nurturing and encouraging a variety of emotionally powerful experiences. This is the story of the creation of the virtual VCD space, and how the architecture of this space would need to play an integral role in organizing, nurturing and encouraging a variety of emotionally powerful experiences.
As the pendulum swings back into Second Life for some exciting new consulting projects, I’m reminded just how fun it is to build with prims and how much potential virtual environments hold for architectural practice and collaboration. You can quite literally *feel* the space as it takes shape, understanding and perceiving it in a way that no other medium affords.
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