Smart Cities, Data, Modelling and Visualisation from The Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College London
The movie above details ‘Life with PlayStation’ a free service that provides access to real-time news and information from over 60 cities around the world. Displayed via an impressive digital globe it is an interesting addition to the PS3 – almost enough to justify one for the office… Life with…
Second Life broke into the main stream during 2007 and perhaps more than any virtual world to date illustrated how digital environments can be used for visualisation and communication in the sciences. Second Life’s take up by NATURE and numerous Universities illustrates how established institutions are testing the water and…
A movie of Sony’s multi-user environment for the Playstation 3, known as ‘Home’ has been leaked onto YouTube: Although the footage is of low quality it does provide an insight into how Home is shaping up. Comparisons with Second Life will abound over the next few months in the main…
After our earlier post on the annoncement of ‘Home’ for the Playstation 3 we now have a video which explains the concept: To be honest its impressive and suddenly make’s XBox Live look out of date, virtual worlds are about to go mainstream..
Sony has announced plans for a multi-user environment, similar to Second Life, on the Playstation 3. Known as ‘Home’ the aim is to create a community led world whereby users can build and perhaps more importantly buy virtual objects. Virtual economies are increasingly attracting the eye’s of the big players…
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