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Visualising Point Clouds in Unity by Height and Intensity
For some time there has been a free point cloud viewer available on the Unity asset store. While I was learning about the capture and processing of LiDAR data for my PhD I used the package repeatedly to visualise my data. I also made several changes to the code but couldn’t determine who the author — read more
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Living With A Digital Twin: CASA Research into IoT technologies at Here East on the Olympic Park
Last week as part of the final project for my PhD I completed the installation of a network of eighteen environment sensing devices at UCL’s Here East campus on the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. The custom built devices have been donated to this project by the Intel Collaborative Research Institute (ICRI). For the next four — read more
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TFL JamCam Video Feeds Integrated into CASA ViLo
For a number of years TfL have been providing open access to feeds from over 170 traffic cameras or ‘JamCams’ distributed at key locations across London’s road network. In addition to static images each camera also provides a five second video which is updated every 5 minutes. The feeds of these videos have now been — read more
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Roames: Virtual Asset Management With Unity
Roames is a Unity-based 3D data visualisation platform created by Dutch company Fugro for the purpose of asset management. In particular it has been used to visualise LiDAR point clouds as the basis for the management and maintenance of power networks. In the video below Glen Ross-Sampson and Peter O’Loughlin from the Fugro Roames team discuss — read more
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ViLo and the Future of Planning
Following our recent posts on CASA’s digital urban visualisation platform ViLo, the Future Cities Catapult who collaborated with CASA on the project have released a video discussing it in further detail. Commencing in 2014 the aim of the project was to identify which combinations of urban data might be most valuable to urban planners, site — read more
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Microsoft’s Vision for Mixed and Mixing Realities
https://youtu.be/2MqGrF6JaOM A couple of days ago the RoadtoVR website posted about Microsoft’s parent for a wand like controller which appeared in the concept video above. I thought it was worth re-posting the video here as it provides a good indication of what a mixed reality future might look like. In particular it considers a future — read more
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Nature Smart Cities: Visualising IoT bat monitor data with ViLo
In the past weeks I’ve been collaborating with researchers at the Intel Collaborative Research Institute (ICRI) for Urban IoT to integrate data from bat monitors on the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park into CASA’s digital visualisation platform, ViLo. At present we are visualising the geographic location of each bat monitor with a pin that includes an — read more
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NXT BLD: Emerging Design Technology for the Built Environment
NXT BLD is a new conference in London specifically aimed at the discussion on emerging technologies and their applications in the fields of architecture, engineering and construction. Organised by AEC Magazine, the first event was held in the British Museum on the 28th of June 2017. Videos of the event presentations have been released and — read more
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ViLo: The Virtual London Platform by CASA in VR
This is the third post of the week looking at CASA’s urban data visualisation platform ViLo. Today we are looking at the virtual reality integration with HTC Vive: Using Virtual Reality technologies such as the HTC Vive we can create data rich virtual environments in which users can freely interact with digital representations of urban — read more