Virtual Worlds Circa 1998: How Much Has Changed?
Second Life, collaborative working, voice chat and others of the Web 2.0 world are so of the moment but the concepts were also all the rage in 1998. This post takes a look back to the day when if we…
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To Teleport or Not to Teleport: Travelling in Virtual Worlds
Methods of travel within virtual worlds differ according to distance and the rules imposed by the system. The most…
Yahoo! Map Mixer - Overlay Maps With Ease
Looking back only two years ago if we wanted to upload a map via the web there would be all sorts of questions of…
Digital Urban - The Visual City Working Paper
We have a new working paper out entitled 'Digital Urban - The Visual City', hopefully worth a read... Nothing in the…
SimCity Societies - What Kinds of Cities Would You Build? (Video)
Coming in November from EA is the latest incarnation of the SimCity franchise - SimCity Societies. EA have released a…
Branding and Counterfeiting in Virtual Worlds - Digital Data?
Second Life and its predecessors such as ActiveWorlds represent the best in web 2.0 - the ability to reconstruct any…
Architectural Visualisation - Azula's Alovera Project
Continuing our series on Architectural Visualisation we take a look at Azul 3D.com and their Alovera project in Spain.…
Making Google Maps in Second Life
Daden Ltd has devised a way to serve a geo.rss feed from Second Life and with it the ability to construct your own…
Denver in Virtual Earth
As reported in our previous post on Virtual Earth a number of new 3D cities have been included in the latest update. In…
Chicago in Virtual Earth
Microsoft continues to roll out its 3D cities to very little coverage in the blog sphere. As we have said before if…
Get Google Maps.app on your Ipod Touch
In essence the only plus points about the IPod Touch are the extra memory (if you go for the 16 Gb option) and not…
Living the Architecture - Porchdog in Second Life
As we saw in yesterday's post on Real Estate Goes Virtual Second Life can be viewed as 'Living the Architecture'.…
Bionatics announces LandSIM3D®, Landscape and Urban Simulation Software
Bionatics, a developer of 3D plant, landscape modeling and simulation tools for the 3D industry, has just announced the…