VirtualEnvironments

• February 16, 2006General, VirtualEnvironments

  Google Earth Changing the Way Scientists Collaborate

  A pretty interesting article in Nature.com talks about how free tools like Google Earth are changing the way scientists collaborate on projects. The best quote comes from Michael Goodchild when […]

• February 6, 2006VirtualEnvironments, WebMapping

  eDuShi

  eDuShi is a 3D mapping site for the city of Shanghai, with a cool Sim City kind of look instead of using satellite imagery, and has a navigation interface simliar […]

• February 2, 2006VirtualEnvironments

  Yes, even you can afford Virtual Reality

  This NY Times article from back in January takes a look at some of the ways people are creating Virtual Reality setups without having to spend a million dollars to […]

• January 25, 2006General, VirtualEnvironments

  Eyebeam R&D’s OpenGLExtractor

  Want to add your favorite 3D game character to GoogleEarth? Eyebeam R&D’s OpenGLExtractor allows you to capture and re-use 3D geometry data in other 3D graphics applications, basically a “screen […]

• January 4, 2006VirtualEnvironments

  GEwar

  I haven’t taken more than a cursory glance, but this is a link to the Google Earth War game. Looks fun if you don’t have people giving you significant looks […]

• January 4, 2006General, VirtualEnvironments

  Update on VirtuSphere

  A while back I posted an entry about the VirtuSphere, an immersive virtual reality environment that has been getting a lot of attention. An article posted on the University of […]

• December 14, 2005Human Geography, Navigation, VirtualEnvironments

  Virtual Hiking and the C5 Landscape Initiative

  As many of you know, GIS analysis is based on the notion that alorithms within the computer can be used to analyze the digital representations of real-world physical features such […]

• December 12, 2005General, Human Geography, VirtualEnvironments

  BBC NEWS | Virtual tour of Africa’s heritage

  The BBC has an interesting article on the scanning and modeling of heritage sites in Africa. This is along the same lines as some of the work that Sue and […]

• November 17, 2005VirtualEnvironments, WebMapping

  Google Middle Earth

  Beginning our cartography focus for the day…From the Shire to Mordor, you can find your way and get to know the landscape with the new Google Middle Earth. Includes a […]

• November 3, 2005VirtualEnvironments

  NVIDIA Immersive Dome Experience

  Check out these pictures of NVIDIA’s Immersive Dome Experience at SIGGRAPH2005. Now that’s 3D visualization! Scott Hessels and Gabriel Dunne did some cool visualization experiments using FAA flight pattern data […]