Cities in Games - Tokyo Bus Simulation
While running a search for 'city simulation' for an up coming conference presentation I came across a movie of the Playstation 2 game 'Tokyo Bus Guide 2'. Not available outside of the Japan, for…
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Coverage..
Radio 4 popped in to talk about the Virtual London model, they talked mainly to the boss 'Professor Mike Batty' - we…
Windows Vista Live Weather Gadget
One of the new features in Windows Vista is the use of Gadgets, there are a number of weather related gadgets but the…
Recommended Reading and Hardware
During our PhD and subsequent research we came across several essential books on digital urban environments - as such…
Open Street Map - Community Led Mapping
They said it would never work, the project was frowned upon by some in the industry yet its looking like the Open…
Sony GPS Review - GeoTag Your Photos in the City?
On paper Sony's GPS -CS1 is the perfect gadget for the urban photographer/blogger who wants to geotag their photographs…
Realtime London Weather
Our weather station has been offline for a while, ironically it failed due to 'weathering' and the effects of water on…
AI Implant - Crowd Simulation 3D Max
Implementing crowds into 3D can be time consuming - artificial intelligence isn't something you can simply model 'out…
3D Max - Visualising Agent/Traffic Simulation
Visualisation of complicated agent based simulation - such as traffic or pedestrian modelling often takes second place…
Canary Wharf Overview Movie
Movies are the obvious choice when you need to depict the urban environment, yet so often the real world is overlooked…
Crytek Realtime Architectural Visualisation - 2
In a follow up to our original post on the CryEngine 2 for architectural visualisation we have a movie update: Of note…
Berlin in Google Earth
A week is a short time in digital urban technologies and where as Denver was by far the best city in Google Earth, it…
Skype + Goolge Earth = Multi-User Google Earth
Unype.com has released an interesting application that links Skype with Google Earth. Linking the two you are able to…