GeoDesign

University Medical Center online 3D routing, September 2007

Small World News:

The guys at GeoGames annouce they have launched the brand new Google Earth project for the University Medical Center Utrecht ('UMC Utrecht', Netherlands).

Look up this new Gliding video, click here (new window).

The 'UMC Utrecht' University Medical Center 3D model is running on the M3D Glider technology and features high fidelity 3D visualisations from among other partners, New Zealand's, ZNO.
Read more...

Test-Glide?
Make sure you have Google Earth installed. Or download latest version at: http://earth.google.com

Click on the M3D View button below to open the 3D models and Google Maps routing into Google Earth.
Read more...

Glide to the University Medical Center 'UMC Utrecht' in 3D in Google Earth

Case, Sept. 2007:
'Glide' to your destinations at the University Medical Center Utrecht in 3D in Google Earth, in the comfort of your home.
Read more...

The UMC Utrecht client is dislayed in 3D into Google Earth and will enable 1 Million+ visitors per year to look up their hospital visits destinations in full navigation (Google Maps), from the comfort of their homes.

The UMC Utrecht organisation says this will help reinforce the accessibility of premises and quality of services by helping visitors for their orientation and routing inside the buildings as well, to many polyclinics and treament rooms locations. This: 24/7

GeoGames' s director Jerome Bertrand says this kind of internet 3D solution is usefull for medium to large (semi-) public organisations in the future.
In a world getting smaller and less navigable by the day, one will need to get a fast and correct spatial picture of one's destinations, before, after and during the actual journey on site.

The web services are free.

Read more on GeoGames's Takeoff, M3D Glider portal...

Huge update on Google Earth Netherlands Hi-res

Google Earth: Low Lands in Hi-res!

The Doors of Simulation?

Aerodata-surveys in Antwerp Belgium, released hi-resolution aerial photography of The Netherlands for Google Earth.

This is expected to boost the number of applications for the visualisation of location based simulation in and from the low lands.

Read more on the M3D Glider,at the Fresh geo-games.eu website, here.

Aerodata-surveys News release, here.

Resolutions range from 1 pixel for 40cm x 40 cm to higher. Roughly, this allows to see cars and dutch traffic in just-enough detail. One may recognise a car by color but just not the owner's model.

In other areas, the resolution is pushed to much higher detail.

Utrecht is at 1 pixel = 7 cm x 7 cm!

The Hague, 8 cm.

Assen and Houten are very high as well.

Some areas are restricted and show gargled pixels. The visual effect here, rather than making things virtually 'invisible'  is that 'hot' or restricted areas are very easy to find. Thanks to so-called visual 'blocking' policies.  For more details on sensitive locations, the malignent citizens among us and the military already gathered information for decennias. The argument of security is overrated and very well treated by Ogle Earth earlier this year.

Go and discover!

Also there was a new release of Google Earth this week, adding the TIME dimension to locations. More on this in a later blog as this is expected to become a little revolution in itself!  New functions list at Ogle Earth blog, here.

In June this year, a major upgrade from Google Earth included these new High resolution areas:

Russia, China, Africa, Taiwan, USA, Canada, Bermuda, the Caribbean Islands, many islands in the Pacific, Puerto Rico, South America, New Zealand, Australia, etc...

Rich Internet Experience: Volvo Ocean Race on M3D Glider soon

Rich experience vs. rich media?

The M3D Glider pre-beta is coming soon. News updates at visualcuriosity home blogs here.

Note:
Our apologies for changing the visual content for this page after initial publication.

Google SketchUp: 3D on the loose!

Location based simulation gets more news every day!

@Last? Google SketchUp (FREE)

Today's news hits the fan as GeoDesign, GIS, CAD and AEC community learn that Google SketchUp is given FREE!

Although a surprise for many, this outcome seems to follow a predictable course. When two emerging technologies like Keyhole Google Earth and @last SketchUp merged, it was likely they were going to market more than peanuts in the package.

The White House in 3D: from Google Earth to Google SketchUp and back.

People have good reasons to be thrilled by the news and also be critical when apprehending the open virtual road to profit that lay before them as they will @last publish all 3D content freely, to be Googled later (see old news). This will surely allow for a widespread real-time 3D marketing revolution on the web!

( '@last' Software is the founder, former owner of SketchUp before Google (and was branded with this notorious acronym; similarly, Keyhole inc. was founder creator of later to be renamed Google Earth).

This 3D Wharehouse model tested here runs and integrates in the M3D Glider (Beta). As one can see at bottom in the Text Bubble, the model is considered 'Heavy' by GSU -which is a neat feed-back to the user. M3D Glider integrates your geo-tagged Flickr.com photos, Google Maps like maps to street level anywhere and many other information sources. Stay tuned!  Pre-launching soon.

 

Google SketchUp on the products:
]
"Google SketchUp (free) is designed for do-it-yourself homeowners who like to explore design ideas and share them with others. SketchUp Pro 5 is for design professionals such as architects, designers, builders, art directors and game developers who need to use it as part of a professional design workflow."
[

I have tried the new FREE Google SketchUp (next to the current version, now renamed PRO) and found out a few new nifty functions that typically were lacking to my GeoDesign workflow. So at first glance, it seems the amateur is promoted a safe place among professional artists. More investigations on this subject will go in the SketchDesign section.

Read more on the "SketchUp Google Earth connection", and place a short comment here.

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

New M3D Glider Pilot:
Mediality3D fosters the 'Rotterdam Landmarks' student project: 'The Roof of Rotterdam' (The Netherlands) with the innovative M3D Glider enabling technology (Ajax).

Google Earth view of Rotterdam, The Netherlands, with some 3D Landmarks (Courtesy of Lynx, Hogeschool Rotterdam).

We are happy to announce that the Lynx/ School of Media/ Hogeschool Rotterdam (The Netherlands) will be fostered with the M3D Glider enabling technology.

At this point, funding is on its way and we have room for businesses in Rotterdam to participate to this local project and publish their 'corporate presence' on our Google Earth M3D Glider.

Please contact us when you need more information on our participation program.

This innovative student Pilot project fosters funding from the business community and is expected to receive huge positive publicity. Your building, organisation or business could be visited multiple times in this project.

More information at: Rotterdam Landmarks.

Please email us when you'd like to participate to the growing M3D Glider Pilot community.

We will post on other upcoming Pilots using the M3D Glider technology in this blog.

Cruising Google Earth 3D

M3D Glider for Location Based Simulation
We got mentionned in an interesting article from AECnews.com , Editor-in-Chief Randall S. Newton [Technology for creating the built environment].

Before you ask which new News it is, AEC stands for the combined marketplace "Architecture, Engineering, and Construction".

Building a 3D Glider to Cruise Google Earth
As AECnews researches for the upcoming Location based simulation paradigm he introduces a series of technological events and visions in a row that could become inspirational to the AEC visualisation market at large.

I admit that certain promisses quoted on the use of M3D Glider need more elaboration on our part. This is one of the few priviledges of 'Pre-launching' software: you never quite know what it is going to be till you actually use it first.
The main clue we think, will be to offer real value to real customers, business users and students alike!
Simulation is following the gaming industry - look at The Sims but even more at the Serious Games Initiative. It is ever more critical to address humane customer needs (be it information or entertainement oriented) from a 'user centric vantage point'.

Starting and keeping small, with very dynamic sets of enabling technologies is core to our business philosophy.

In his article introducing the upcoming Congres on the Future of Engineering Software 2006 (COFES), Randall Newton notes rightly:

"To complete the toolset for location-based simulation using Google Earth and AEC 3D CAD, we need the 4th D, time. A few products and services already do project sequencing, where a construction sequencing model is set in motion using time-based animation. But we need the ability to set these animations in their intended geospatial context to arrive at true location-based simulation. "

Please post a comment here.

Randall S. Newton (Editor-in-chief):
]

"Google Earth is a 3D Browser
First and foremost Google Earth is a 3D browser, and I think we are only in nursery school in terms of how it will be used. As fast as we find ways to configure data for use in a geospatial, 3D environment, we will be able to view it in Google Earth (as upgraded, of course). There is enormous potential here not only for AEC, but for society in general. Imagine being able to use Google Earth to track rural-urban population migration over time. Such migrations define construction timing and quantity in cities worldwide. Want to know what global warming is doing to the polar regions? Someday you'll be able to model the changes in Google Earth, perhaps using a slider tool to view the changes year by year. As for me, I think I'll start using Google Earth to identify Arctic Ocean waterfront property, then use SketchUp to model my dream beachfront home. I wonder what five acres on a good harbor in arctic Canada will be worth in 20 years?"
[

Note:
When you are free from Google Earth and have some time on your hands, read this fantastic little book I just associate creatively to this image of Artic Ocean and Waterfront property. From Daniel Hays (co-author with his father of 'My Old Man And The Sea"): "On Whale Island, Notes from a Place I Never Meant to Leave" is about his Nova Scotia island and survival adventures.

AECnews.com full article on M3D Glider is reproduced below.

New M3D Glider for Google Earth!

This blog is dedicated to GeoDesign. And this fresh post is on our brand new M3D Glider for Google Earth.

You can place a comment here.

We are pre-launching the M3D Glider for Google Earth very soon. This application is AJAX-based COMET technology (AJAX: Asynchronous JavaScript And XML, COMET: the same with a new hype name to it) and makes it possible to integrate many Web 2.0 capabilities into the FREE Google Earth viewer - on real location!

AJAX provides the Google Earth user with a sleeker user experience from a point-and-click interface in 3D space - including 3D models of buildings and towns and Flickr.com geotagged photo databases.

All in Real time!

We are working very hard to release this new concept. Expect more posts on many related subjects as geo-intelligence, located based simulation, and 3D design in this section of the visualcuriosity.blogs: GeoDesign. Give us feed-back by all means!
 

Please give us your email address above to receive the M3D Glider blogletter on a regular basis over the mail.

Thanks and stay tuned!

For more background information on our creative lab, Mediality3D.com, please visit: http://www.mediality3D.com

M3D Glider Preview
This is a snapshot showing the interface of M3D Glider. M3D Glider is dispayed in your standard WEB view of Google Earth. M3D Glider synchronises your geo-located internet information - in real-time.

M3D Glider will be available for the Windows PC and Apple Macintosh platforms and will offer all clients some geo-editing functionality to publish custom web content on-demand via the M3D Glider server.

Many (custom) services are likely to follow but we concentrate first on delivering a simple, easy and serious fun application for all of you out there!

Stay tuned!
M3D Glider Team.

[visualcuriosity.blogs.com/ geodesign]

Leave us a comment here (scroll down).

NEW BLOG on GeoDesign

This new blog is dedicated to GeoDesign and to supporting our new product, The M3D Glider.

We are working hard on creating a new internet viewer for Google Earth: the M3D Glider . This is an AJAX-based application to integrate many web functionalities into your own FREE Google Earth - including 3D models of buildings and towns and Flickr.com geotagged photo databases.

All in Real time!

Expect articles and news on Geo-intelligence, Location based simulation real-time web 3D design to come in this section of the visualcuriosity.blogs.com/GeoDesign!

Thanks and stay tuned!

For more background information on our creative lab, please visit: http://www.mediality3D.om