We proudly present our latest project, the 4-sim region of Amiais, currently online and fully visitable in Second Life LOCUSPROJECT is an iteration of the original project LOCUS – PlayfuL cOnneCted rUral territorieS: The Internet of Things in the intergenerational Creative production of cultural georeferenced contents, a multi-year research project […]
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As part of the sponsorship of the first OpenSimulator Community Conference (OSCC13), Beta Technologies has updated CHAIA’s City & Spectacle: A Vision of Pre-Earthquake Lisbon project on Kitely, by including a virtual museum showing a 2D map of the virtual reconstruction with labels and a historical timeline of the construction of the architecture. […]
The OpenSimulator Community Conference is an annual conference that focuses on the community around the OpenSimulator software, currently on its first-ever edition. The conference features two days of presentations, workshops, keynote sessions, and social events across diverse sectors of the OpenSimulator user base. It also joins several different communities under the same overall […]
Portugal’s National Museum of Ancient Art has invited the team from CHAIA, developing the City & Spectacle: a vision of pre-earthquake Lisbon project with Beta Technologies, to be present with a video integrated in the “Prodigious Commission” exhibit, which will run from May 18th to September 29th, 2013.
In development since 2005, City & Spectacle: A Vision of Pre-Earthquake Lisbon is a virtual archaeology academic project that endeavours to give an idea on how the city of Lisbon looked like on November 1st, 1755, when an earthquake (followed by a tsunami and fires) completely destroyed it. Based on documental […]
The research team for the City and Spectacle: a vision of pre-earthquake Lisbon project, which is recreating the city of Lisbon in 1755 just before the Earthquake of November 1, 1755 with Beta Technologies using OpenSimulator technology, is presenting the latest series of enhancements and remodelation of the current buildings at the Virtual […]
LanguageLab.com, a client of Beta Technologies since our very beginning, announced today a partnership with the renowned company Pearson Education, a sister company of Pearson and part of the group that includes the Penguin book publishing company and the Financial Times newspaper. Pearson Education produces books and learning tools to […]
ENEI, a conference organised by the students of software engineering, is inviting a speaker from Beta Technologies to talk at the 6th edition of their conference, to be held in Vila Real at the UTAD university campus. The topic of the conference on Saturday will be about virtual worlds in […]
The City and Spectacle: a vision of pre-earthquake Lisbon project, a virtual recreation of the city of Lisbon before the 1755 earthquake, using Second Life® technology, is a pioneer project in Portugal promoted by the Centro de História de Arte e Investigação Artística da Universidade de Évora (CHAIA), Beta Technologies, and King’s Visualisation […]
Above the Fold, organisers of the Spring 2010 Conference: Leadership in Business, which was scheduled for April 27-29, 2010, and to be held at Beta Technologies’ auditorium, just announced that the conference sadly has to be postponed mostly due to health issues of the organisers. For a list of speakers and the […]