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…
Andy30 November 2007
Importing physical terrain data into Second Life is one of our goals as it allows 'table top' models of the earths physical geography to be…
Andy29 November 2007
Shelter, the United Kingdom's national charity campaigning on housing and homelessness, has set up a virtual plot of land with the aim of building a…
Andy25 November 2007
The term Mirror Worlds comes from David Gelernter's seminal book 'Mirror Worlds or: The Day Software puts the Universe in a Shoebox'. Essentially it is…
Andy24 November 2007
Augmented Reality (AR)is an interesting and underused concept in communicating the cityscape. Embedded below is an example of using AR in a exhibition environment illustrating…
Andy23 November 2007
The latest issue of EDGE (183) features an excellent article on Automatic City Building for games. Focused on Gamr7, it details their middleware aimed at…
Andy23 November 2007
Its not often we say this, but 'The Metaverse Roadmap: Pathways to the 3D Web' is one of the best reports we have read for…
Andy22 November 2007
This one made us smile, the majority of the images in the book we are assuming will focus on architecture and the urban scene in…
Andy22 November 2007