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3D Imagery in Google Earth
Since 2006 Google Earth has included textured 3D building models for urban areas. Initially these were crowd-sourced from enthusiastic members of the user community who modeled them by hand with the aid of SketchUp, sold to Timble in 2012, or the simpler Google Building Maker, retired in 2013. As the video above shows, from 2012 — read more
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Pointerra: Points in the Cloud
Pointerra are an Australian geospatial start-up offering point cloud and LiDAR data as a service. Their platform which is deployed on Amazon Web Services enables online visualisation of massive point clouds in 3D via a standard browser. The U.S. Geological Survey point cloud of New York visualised above has a massive 3.1 billion points. These can be navigated in — read more
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Drones for Participatory Planning with Flora Roumpani
In this recent video from AMD’s RADEON Creator series fellow CASA PhD candidate Flora Roumpani discusses her involvement in the UCL Development Planning Unit’s ReMap Lima project. The project sought to map the favelas on the outskirts of Peru’s capital Lima in order to help the communities living there to better understand the planning challenges they face and more — read more
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Exploring London’s Underworld in VR
In collaboration with academic and urban explorer Bradley Garrett the Guardian have released this new interactive tour virtual reality of London’s sewers. The tour has been specially created for Google Daydream. However, there is also an interactive demo for your desktop web browser. For more information check out the Guardian VR page. — read more
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CleanSpace: Mapping Air Pollution in London
Today I received a personal air quality sensor, the CleanSpace sensor tag. The device is a carbon monoxide (CO) sensor which is designed to be carried by the user and paired with the CleanSpace Android or iOS app via blueetooth. While the sensor takes readings the app provides real time feedback to the user on local — read more
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Microsoft HoloLens: Hands On!
It’s taken a while but I finally had my first hands on look at Microsoft HoloLens last night. The demonstration was given as part of the London Unity Usergroup (LUUG) meetup a talk by Jerome Maurey-Delaunay of Neutral Digital about their initial experiences of building demos for the device with Unity. Neutral are a design and software consultancy who have — read more
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One Man Game Jam: HTC Vive Basketball
Last week CASA finally received the HTC Vive. Everyone in the office had great fun exploring Valve’s demo experience The Lab. During the week the Longbow emerged as a particular favourite and caused several of us to discuss which sports might work in VR as viable training simulations. Wanting to get to grips with the HTC Vive hand — read more
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Royal Institution Coding Club: Drones and 3D Modelling
On Saturday the 5th of March the CASA Drone team and I ran workshops on drones and 3D modelling as part of the Royal Institution’s Coding Club for year 9 students. The session began with an introduction by Flora and a discussion of the #drones4good movement and her previous collaboration with the ReMap Lima project where drones were used — read more
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Virtual Architectures at the QEOP Smart Park Demonstrator
From Saturday 13th of February to Sunday 21st February the London Legacy Development Corporation (LLDC) held a 9 day ‘Smart Park’ demonstrator event at the ArcelorMittal Orbit tower on the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. Exhibits were provided by The Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) and the UCL Interaction Centre (UCLIC). As the event was — read more
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SpatialOS: What If We Had A Digital City?
In this video from Slush 2015 the CEO of tech company Improbable, Herman Narula, introduces the company’s ground breaking SpatialOS by asking the question ‘What if we had a digital city?’ Its value is the possibility it provides for seeing into the future of the city and answering the types of questions that start ‘What if?’ In this way the concerns motivating — read more