Entries Tagged 'Google Earth' ↓

 The Norwegian government has officially released some early information on the new Rockheim Rock & Pop Museum and Virtual Rockheim Experience that Stacey Spiegel & I have been working on (well I’ve been focused on the Virtual side). Time to show Web 2.0 what ROCK & ROLL is all about. A PDF of the full-page article in the Norwegian press is viewable: Rockheim in the News! (the article is in Norwegian FYI)

The pieces are starting to flow together. The data in the Rockheim Wiki, the KML (& Collada) file format translator, and a procedural 3d form generator can now generate some cool embedded content experiences into Google Earth in a relatively automated fashion (minus a few bugs/steps to automate). All the steps now work though it needs some optimization to be manageable through a webbrowser (this image has > 980 album links in it with cover art/etc.).

‘Second Earth’ is a reality, not just a dream. Onwards!

The August 2007 edition of Technology Review has a good article called Second Earth - combining ideas of Second Life, Google Earth, Mirror Worlds (Gelernter, 1991). This is the core of what Parallel World Labs is about and is doing (and has done since the Expo 2005 Virtual Canada project). Worth a look for those with some interest in the topic area.

A nice breakthrough today with the core code finished to convert from PD (and Polytrim) to Google Earth (by way of the industry standard COLLADA format). Support for colours, textures, etc. working now.

A little more work to improve positioning and auto-translation of texture formats still needed but that is just the icing.