OrbisRT was featured at the ACADIA 2007 Conference, in the Sustainable Cities Workshop. OrbisRT provided the real-time visualization tools to explore and understand new development alternatives under study in the workshop for an area of Halifax, Canada.
Model data was imported from GIS, CAD, Google Sketchup, and the Polytrim software and explored interactively with different design alternatives from the local area and even from the Halifax Citadel.
As we evolve OrbisRT a little further, we will be releasing it as free and Open Source software to allow more informed design and decision-making in our urban environments, and encourage greater research collaboration in spatial disciplines.