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Virtual Architectures in The Guardian
I’m pleased to announce that last week Virtual Architectures made it into the press following our recent guest post on The Making of the CASA Oculus Rift Urban Roller Coaster for Digital Urban. While the headline seems to have put several readers of The Guardian on the wrong track I’m please that the article captures — read more
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The making of the CASA Urban Roller Coaster
In May 2014 Virtual Architectures was invited by CASA to create a virtual reality exhibit for the Walking on Water exhibition that was partnered with Grand Designs Live at London’s ExCeL. While CASA spend a lot of time thinking very seriously about cities it was quickly decided that a fun and novel way to engage — read more
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Virtual Architectures with CASA at Grand Designs Live
From Saturday the 3rd May (today) until Sunday 11 May CASA will be exhibiting at the Grand Designs Live event at London’s Excel. Virtual Architectures is pleased to have contributed an exciting virtual reality Urban Roller Coaster to the roster of high tech exhibits. If you have the opportunity make sure you check out the — read more
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London Oculus Rift/VR Developer Meetup (Feb 2014)
Last week Virtual Architectures headed over to East London to check out the goodies on display at the most recent London Oculus Rift / VR Developer Meetup hosted by creative production company Inition. Is was a great evening with plenty of new technology on display so we thought we’d share. First off was the European — read more
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Panopticon Project Phase 1 – Technical Testing & Teaser
Having received the Oculus Rift development kit last month Virtual Architectures has spent the time exploring existing Oculus ready games and demos to get a sense of what works in VR and what doesn’t. In the meantime we’ve also completed the crucial first phase of technical testing by creating a scene and exploring it with — read more
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The Oculus Rift Has Arrived!
Exciting News! Virtual Architectures have just received their Oculus Rift development kit. As we hope you can see from this video the Oculus Rift really is an exciting leap forward in affordable virtual reality technology. Having started as a Kickstarter campaign less than two years ago the key features which have generated such wide backing — read more
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Building Bentham’s Panoption – A Simple Idea in Architecture
For our first project Virtual Architectures will be working to realise Jeremy Bentham’s design for the perfect prison, the Panopticon, in virtual reality. Jeremy Bentham was an British philosopher and jurist from the 18th century who is best know for his contribution to ethics in the founding of modern Utilitarianism. In formulating his plan for the Panopticon he described — read more