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 […]
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As part of the very long project of creating a visual representation of the city of Lisbon in 1755, just before the earthquake destroyed it, Beta Technologies was asked to provide a promotional video of the work done so far, which is going to be used on the many international […]
As part of the ongoing work with CHAIA (University of Évora), Beta Technologies upgraded their long-term project for the virtual recreation of the city of Lisbon just prior to the 1755 earthquake which utterly destroyed most of the downtown. As further research reveals more fascinating aspects of a Lost City […]
i-Learning Workshops, Immersive Learning for the Classroom & Workplace, dba, DHR New Media, LLC is a consulting service using best practices for Second Life education and employee training. i-Learning Workshops contracted Beta Technologies to build a simulation of an urban city to use as a platform for workforce development training. This […]
ACRL virtual tour of the Lisbon 1755 project on Kitely.
The site I am envisioning for the Query is located at Talenstrasse 1165 Neufreistadt. Talenstrasse is a straight street that exits the Marktplatz heading due south until it meets Gwynethstrasse, and this borders the city walls, leading to the South gate very close by. Crossing it, one steps into the […]
Just a cool preview of what you can see when visiting our latest project: Locus Project Amiais @ Second Life More of these soon.
Now, the SL Metaverse is stock-full of digital spaces that match Augé’s points! (And that’s also an interesting thing on its own…) So I want to showcase the place that I know best in SL: the Confederation of Democratic Simulators (CDS), one of the oldest communities in SL. The CDS […]
So… I have been thinking about this of late. Actually, it is an extension of something that has intrigued me for a long time in real life (RL): what is place? This, of course, is a seminal question in architecture and related fields. Possibly there will never be a definite, […]
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. […]