We have just recieved a email from Hidenori Watanave, Associate professor of Tokyo Metropolitan University about his groups "Archidemo" project in Second Life.
"Archidemo" consists of experimental demonstration and research into the
possibility of architecture and environmental design in the Metaverse. The use of panoramas and the explorations of levels of zoom within an environment is quite interesting, it is worth taking a look at the YouTube movie embedded below:
You can find out more about the project from http://archidemo.blogspot.com/