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…
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Every now and then someone sends you a link that has the whole office gathered around your workstation. Edushi.com (short for ECity in Chinese) is…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…