VirtualEnvironments
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general, Human Geography, VirtualEnvironments
Urban Planning – Sim City style
BBC News has a nice article about MetroQuest, a software application that uses a Sim City-like visual interface to allow users to model how urban planning decisions might affect the […]
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Gadgets, general, VirtualEnvironments
Use tablet instead of table to control GE
Inspired by the Smackbook demo and the tabletop Google Earth at the Where Fair, I am trying to use my Toshiba M200 tablet to control Google Earth (and others). Unlike […]
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general, Hardware, VirtualEnvironments
Table top control of 3D space
A Phd student at the University of Calgary’s Interactions Laboratory has come up with some pretty cool new interactive tools for Google Earth and Warcraft III (not at the same […]
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Hurricane Simulator
For people in the interior of countries, the difference between a category 2 hurricane and a category 3 hurricane might not be all that aparent. That’s why the good people […]
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general, VirtualEnvironments, VirtualWorlds
Google Earth City Data for the UK
While there is already some GE 3D city data for London, 3pointD posted a news release from Cities Revealed that suggests they will be making portions of their building data […]
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Harvard Business Review discusses Avatar-based Marketing
We-Make-Money-Not-Art posted about an article from the Harvard Business Review about avatar-based marketing in virtual worlds like Second Life. The article argues that, while the real-world subscribers to online virtual […]
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Talkin’ About the Metaverse
Mark over at 3pointD posted a link this morning to an article at CNNMoney from David Kirkpatrick, a FORTUNE senior editor, that is written in the form of a conversation, […]
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general, VirtualEnvironments, WebMapping
World of Warcraft Online Google Map
I blogged this way back in January when it first came out. It’s a World of Warcaft Online Map using the Google Maps API. They’ve added a bunch of functionality […]
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general, Programming/Dev, VirtualEnvironments
Google Earth and Virtual Worlds
Stephan over at OgleEarth links to a post by Avi Bar-Zeev, one of the Keyhole co-founders who also worked for Linden Labs (makers of Second Life), about Google Earth, what […]
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Historic Reconstruction with SketchUp
Matt from GIS for Archaeology and CRM posted a great example of how SketchUp has been used to support historic research to recreate buildings based on historic records and photographs. […]
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