Arc to Second Life: Geographic Data Direct to Second Life
As part of our research project funded by the National Centre for E-Social Science we are working on Second Nature Island (part of the NATURE group ) on importing geographic data into Second Life. We…
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Edushi.com - Possibly the Best City Maps in the World?
Every now and then someone sends you a link that has the whole office gathered around your workstation. Edushi.com…
Importing Geographic Terrains into Second Life
Importing physical terrain data into Second Life is one of our goals as it allows 'table top' models of the earths…
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A quick message just to apologise for the lack of posts so far this week. We have been working on a paper for a book…
Build a Virtual City - Shelter Buy a House Rebuild A Life
Shelter, the United Kingdom's national charity campaigning on housing and homelessness, has set up a virtual plot of…
Mirror Worlds: Real World Virtual Cities, Twinty?
The term Mirror Worlds comes from David Gelernter's seminal book 'Mirror Worlds or: The Day Software puts the Universe…
Augmented Reality for Communicating Architecture
Augmented Reality (AR)is an interesting and underused concept in communicating the cityscape. Embedded below is an…
Automatic City Builder - Gamr7
The latest issue of EDGE (183) features an excellent article on Automatic City Building for games. Focused on Gamr7 ,…
Back to the MetaVerse: The Roadmap
Its not often we say this, but 'The Metaverse Roadmap: Pathways to the 3D Web' is one of the best reports we have read…
Worlds Worst Urban Spaces: Katowice, Poland
This one made us smile, the majority of the images in the book we are assuming will focus on architecture and the urban…
The Flood: London Digital Effects
Climate change and its effects on cities is an increasingly hot topic, as such its not surprising that it is a topic…
Worlds Worst Urban Spaces: Nihonbashi -Tokyo Metropolitan Expressway
The latest submission to the forthcoming book is from Martinpfirrmann via our Flickr Pool . This is an interesting one,…
Lost Software
Since CANOMA came onto the scene there as been a demand to