ESRI Archives - Digital Urban https://www.digitalurban.org/blog/tag/esri/ Data, Cities, IoT, Writing, Music and Making Things Wed, 24 Apr 2013 15:00:24 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://www.digitalurban.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Dulogosm-1.png ESRI Archives - Digital Urban https://www.digitalurban.org/blog/tag/esri/ 32 32 Augmented Reality City Table Top – Unity, CityEngine and Vufoira https://www.digitalurban.org/blog/2013/04/24/augmented-reality-city-table-top-unity-cityengine-and-vufoira/ Wed, 24 Apr 2013 15:00:24 +0000 http://www.digitalurban.org/?p=3333 The Vuforia AR Extension for Unity allows developers to build AR apps using the cross-platform game engine – Unity. Working with both the free and pro versions of Unity, Vuforia is not...

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]]> The Vuforia AR Extension for Unity allows developers to build AR apps using the cross-platform game engine – Unity. Working with both the free and pro versions of Unity, Vuforia is not only free it is also one of the best out there in terms of tracking and image based tagging.
Table Top AR City

Table Top AR City

Running on either iOS/Android or direct via a webcam it allows the integration of other Unity assets into scenes. As such you can create a table top digital city complete with agents all linked to an image based marker and running as a native iOS app:

We will be exploring this further over coming weeks, it opens up a lot of possibilities for augmenting city models (and office desks) with urban data visualisations via custom made iOS/Android apps….

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]]> CityEngine 2012 – New Features and ‘Sketch Tool’ https://www.digitalurban.org/blog/2012/10/08/cityengine-2012-new-features-and-sketch-tool-2/ https://www.digitalurban.org/blog/2012/10/08/cityengine-2012-new-features-and-sketch-tool-2/#comments Mon, 08 Oct 2012 09:12:10 +0000 http://www.digitalurban.org/?p=3010 CityEngine 2012 now supports easy-to-use editing tools for the quick sketching and texturing of 3D building models (read SketchUp): Its only towards the end of the clip that you realise that the...

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]]> CityEngine 2012 now supports easy-to-use editing tools for the quick sketching and texturing of 3D building models (read SketchUp):

Its only towards the end of the clip that you realise that the resulting 3D geometries can be saved back to the file geodatabase, allowing proceduaural modelling of your SketchUp style models….
CityEngine 2012 has a number of notable new features, head over to http://blogs.esri.com/esri/arcgis/2012/10/03/cityengine-2012-1-released/ for full details.
Thanks to Flora of http://en-topia.blogspot.co.uk/ for sending this in.

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