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How To and Tutorials on City, Gaming, Architectural and Google EarthMaps Visualisation

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A quick post to note that our Tutorials thread has been updated to include the recent ‘How To’s’.

We now have 16 tutorials ranging from Google Maps and Google Earth to Oblivion onward to SketchUp and Nokia 95 panoramas to name but a few subjects.

Over the coming weeks we hope to add a few more, including a couple that have been requested on High Dynamic Range Photography and creating ‘Panoramic Planets’. If there is a tutorial you would like to see simply drop us a mail via the link on the top right hand side.

View the complete list of our Tutorials.

VRMAG Issue 28

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Panoramas are close to our heart here at Digital Urban, they are a quick and easy way to capture the cityscape and provide a unique view of our environment. VRMAG has just released issue 28 of their magazine that covers all issues relating to panoramas as well as featuring some of the best images around.

Of note is their new ‘flash book’ format whereby you can drag and turn the page, its well worth sitting down and having a flick through the latest issue.

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VRMAG Issue 28

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Panoramas are close to our heart here at Digital Urban, they are a quick and easy way to capture the cityscape and provide a unique view of our environment. VRMAG has just released issue 28 of their magazine that covers all issues relating to panoramas as well as featuring some of the best images around.

Of note is their new ‘flash book’ format whereby you can drag and turn the page, its well worth sitting down and having a flick through the latest issue.

Visit VRMAG

Arc to Second Life: Geographic Data Direct to Second Life

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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 have just made a bit of a break through by importing data direct from a Geographic Information System (GIS) into our section of the world. As the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis the majority of our data is held in ArcMap, a GIS package made by ESRI.


The two images (each clickable for larger versions) illustrate the 32 London Boroughs extruded according to their embedded data. Each Borough can be queried and more importantly can now be visualised in Second Life.

It is still early days but an exporter from ArcMap to Second Life would be a unique step in the aim to share geographic data in collaborative environments.

Thanks go to Joel at CASA for writing the scripts.

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