VirtualEnvironments

• October 22, 2010VirtualEnvironments

  3D cities

  This week’s podcast (episode 274) looked at the 2D/3D question, but as we tend to do, we talked a good bit more about 3D than 2D. We each, of course, […]

• July 29, 2010general, Programming/Dev, VirtualEnvironments, WebMapping

  Microsoft Research’s Street Slide

  If you haven’t seen the demo of Microsoft Research’s Street Slide, it’s a pretty cool addition to Bing Streetside that is not available yet, but will be presented at SIGGRAPH […]

• May 4, 2010Cool Stuff, general, VirtualEnvironments

  IBM’s CityOne – Gaming to solve our cities’ problems

  While I continue my research in the area of immersive virtual worlds and serious gaming, I have also been doing a lot of work recently in the area of digital […]

• February 14, 2010VirtualEnvironments, WebMapping

  Bing Maps updates

  While editing the podcast today I realized I did a horrible job of describing Microsoft’s new features. In my defense, I was talking about it as I received an error […]

• February 10, 2010general, VirtualEnvironments, WebMapping

  Vancouver Winter Olympic venues in 3D

  I can’t pass up a chance to post a cool interactive 3D visualization, like the NY Times map of the Vancouver Olympic venues. They’re using Intermap’s elevation data, and imagery […]

• January 29, 2010Social Networking, VirtualEnvironments

  Victorian 3-D

  Before there was Avatar and even before Fisher-Price Viewmaster, there was stereoscopy or stereo photographs that presented scenes in life-like three dimensions similar to a Viewmaster. A recent book on […]

• August 28, 2009general, VirtualEnvironments

  Virtualization Gate – Full-bodied Immersive Virtual Environment

  As many of you know, we have been involved in research related to geovisualization, 3D immersive virtual environments, and 3D virtual worlds for quite a while, and we’ve talked about […]

• July 7, 2009general, LostInTheVirtualFog, Programming/Dev, VirtualEnvironments

  Lost in the Virtual Fog – A Question of Scale

  I have been remiss in not doing any diary entries for awhile, but I have been feverishly working trying to get my demo XNA application ready for the ESRI UC […]

• June 24, 2009general, VirtualEnvironments

  Interactive vs flythrough visualizations

  Over the years we have seen many geovisualization technologies emerge, each with their own ups and downs (pun, sadly, intended). All of the approaches, however, can be broken down to […]

• May 27, 2009general, LostInTheVirtualFog, Programming/Dev, VirtualEnvironments

  Lost in the Virtual Fog – making the interactive connection, part 1

  My dissertation proposal defense is finally over and, since I passed, it’s time to get back to work and really get the functionality on the Spatial Experience Engine ramped up. […]