In conjunction with their new series “How We Built Britain”, the BBC is collaborating with Microsoft Live Labs Photosynth team on a new set of collections called Your Britain in Pictures (Jesse tells me that this was mentioned briefly during the virtual globes session at ISDE5 last Friday) that will feature some of Britain’s most […]
Paul Torrens, a professor at Arizona State University (who did his PhD work at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at UC London), has already put together an amazing body of research in modeling surburban sprawl, and urban behavior and phenomena using geospatial tools. He recently received an NSF CAREER grant to work on a […]
The launch of the city of Glasgow’s 3D virtual map, called the Glasgow Urban Model, got some press from the BBC. The virtual mapping project cost 450,000 pounds, and was actually led by the Digital Design Lab at the Glasgow School of Art, as opposed to a GIS or mapping entity. The model was built […]
A week ago Friday, I saw that the fotowoosh site had gone live, and I haven’t had a chance to sit down and blog it until today. Licensing technology that was developed at Carnegie-Mellon, fotowoosh is similar to Photosynth, from Microsoft Research. fotowoosh will also allow you to generate 3D models from a 2D image, […]
Microsoft has awarded over $1.1 million in grants to winners in their Virtual Earth and SensorMap grant competitions. The SensorMap project include work on Harvard’s CitySense project, which will utilize a network of 100 sensors aroudn Cambridge, Mass. that record various types of data related to local conditions, such as current weather and traffic levels. […]
As part of the PS3’s continuing evolution Sony has made a Folding@Home client available. As part of this there will be a map that will show all of the PS3s that are running Folding@Home. One of the interesting parts of this is the fact that they are going to use a ‘world at night’ feel […]
Slashdot is reporting an interesting article that claims AOL and Skyhook Wireless have mapped “the majority of residences in the U.S. and Canada” along with their wireless service (or lack there of). It is supposedly part of their “Near Me” service which allows AOL IM users to see people physically located near themselves. I’m of […]
At the Game Developers Conference yesterday, Sony offered a preview trailer of its new 3d virtual world, which will be part of its PS3 “Home” online services. The trailer has been posted at GameTrailers.com (search under PS3), which can be slow to load and contains ads. Mark over at 3pointD also has a link to […]
The Winter 2006/2007 issue of ArcNews arrived today, and we were excited to see that WVU GeoVirtual Lab’s newly-installed CAVE system with a custom connector for ArcScene and ArcGlobe, was featured. I was especially happy that they printed the photos of the project I sweated and toiled over all last summer and fall with our […]
While catching up on virtual world and metaverse news, I found this interesting little article about a startup virtual world called Kaneva, which is in beta testing. Its creator, Christopher Klaus, notes in the article that he is expecting Kaneva to go live in the first half of this year. Klaus previously founded a company […]