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. "
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Randall S. Newton (Editor-in-chief):
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"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?"
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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.
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"Building a 3D Glider to Cruise Google Earth
Mediality is
a software start-up in The Netherlands that intends to be front and
center on location-based simulation. It is discussing a forthcoming
product called M3D Glider,
which it says will integrate many web functionalities into Google
Earth, including the addition of real-time awareness to the viewing of
3D models of buildings and towns. Mediality is using the term
“location-based simulation” to describe what their product will offer.
(I first discovered Mediality thanks to Ogle Earth, the excellent Google Earth blog by Stefan Geens.)
I had an email exchange this week with Mediality co-founder Jerome Bertrand. “M3D Glider is a viewer that will integrate Web 2.0 functionalities and 3D for AEC and other location-based information markets,” he told me. “Think of it as 'simulation for everyone.' This includes specific interfaces for special markets.” In use, Bertrand says, M3D Glider will provide geographic real-time simulation using 3D overlays. “These overlays contain 'intelligent' 3D data that can be swapped per location and be updated over time,” he adds. “The user chooses exactly how, where, why and when to view the enriched, streaming content.”
Bertrand credits SketchUp
as providing the "Ah Ha!" moment that changed his professional goals.
“I have been a SketchUp fanatic from the start. As a matter of fact the
guys in Boulder not only helped me design in 3D on a Mac as never
possible before but also fused me to re-think about my career as a
designer. I decided to switch my job as senior visual design at a IT
user interface design consultancy to researching real-time web 3D and
the serious game markets. This lead me to create my own firm,
Mediality, around the theme of location-based simulation.”
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[more on SketchDesign here]
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Bertrand
thinks the time is right for location-based simulation. “We realized
there is a potential powerful bottleneck situation here: the amount of
data and business logic models, the need to understand the data, the
need to display the data. Simulation-on-demand is what we are trying to
accomplish with AJAX
and a number of API-related technologies. We are committed to deliver
the best possible IT solution to address these typical new bottlenecks
for the large Google Earth audience, starters as well as accomplished
professionals and businesses. Dedicated 3D databases are [available]
but often come at enormous high costs. Do they show the stuff right? Is
it easy to use? Is it flexible?”"
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