Street view and depth
Space vs object
Space or usage categories for building modeling vs object or component (system) modeling.
Purposeful
A big thought for the morning: the purpose of virtual worlds (like second life) is to map out what can happen in the future, modeling near future alternatives, visioning long term goals.
From H+ magazine, Surfdaddy Orca says,
“Metanomics is an emerging – even edgy – field of academic study that deals with the economic, legal, and [...]
Becoming GPS
“Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. has built a GPS accessory for its PlayStation Portable, currently available only in Japan, that allows game players to careen their cars into the side of a building, then flip to driving directions and safely steer to a grocery store.”
Boston.com has a great story about the growth of GPS.
Along the same [...]
ABOUT
- Just got home from the hospital; broken foot and all. splint now, cast next week. 6-8 weeks off of it. no swimming. crap.
- Post Mt Si: wine, tylenol, ice.
- Okay. Did my annual Mt Si climb today. Still stopped half way up that frigging haystack. 3451 ft elevation gain and back in 4 hrs 45 min.
- rode my bike to work today. 35 mile round trip. Think I grew me some gills on the way home.
- "The chatroom is my brain" leo laporte
- Freakin busy morning. Now, in honor of all things slacker, I'm going out for a bike ride in my new Cap America t. ... call me the breeze.
- Expert Labs, ThinkTank, Gina Trapani and our Grand Challenges http://bit.ly/cLfS1b /cc @feedly
- Autodesk launches online Green Building Game http://bit.ly/4pFTPg (via feedly)
- Gotta check into a SAP BIM CAD connection. Maybe try using a #task to keep these ideas. Hmmm ...
- I got a million, need to get down to just one: Freelancer New Year Resolutions http://bit.ly/8mUMil (via feedly)
GOOGLE READER
- Build a Linux-Powered Sprinkler System for your Garden Lisa Hoover
- Tech Soft 3D relaunches Adobe's TTF libraries in July ralph grabowski
- Crowdsourced Moon Mapping: As Good as Experts (Adena Schutzberg)
- Wired Looks over Data.gov Update (Adena Schutzberg)
- How Long is a Spatial Infrastructure Lifecycle? Vector One
- Storm Clouds On the Economic Horizon? noreply@blogger.com (Hale "Bonddad" Stewart)
- Motley Fool criticizes Autodesk's newly expensive upgrade pricing ralph grabowski
- Ghosts Of The Future: Borrowing Architecture From The Zone Of Alienation Geoff Manaugh
- Army Announces Apps for the Army Competition - All Points Blog (author unknown)
- HP Introduces New PCs for Businesses – Including New Tablet PC Brandon LeBlanc