Amazing Paris Fly Through Built on Virtual Earth and 3DVIA
3D Experience, 3DVIA Shape, Models Spotlight, Virtual Earth February 26th, 2008
Video: 3D Tour of New Microsoft Buildings in Paris
Under the category of cool things that you can accomplish with our very own Virtual Earth - 3DVIA 3D modeling application and Microsoft Virtual Earth, the above fly through was built for a presentation of the proposed Eos Generali building in the heart of the Paris business district. We worked closely with several groups to produce the video including our old friends from Earthware (a.k.a. siege103 on 3DVIA.com) who produced many of the buildings that you see in the presentation.
Although you may not have the 3D modeling talent of Chris (Earthware) or Marc (3DVIA), you can produce the same concept on Virtual Earth today. Everything you see above was produced through applications that are freely available right now. The buildings were modeled with the Virtual Earth - 3DVIA version of our free Shape 3D modeling application and the "fly through" capability comes standard with Virtual Earth. Marc has already promised a tutorial on how to produce your own that will be posted here soon.
The video was posted earlier on several sites including the Virtual Earth / Live Maps and Earthware blogs. I like Michael’s second comment on the VE / Live Map blog…"It almost looks just like 2nd Life! I couldn’t help but notice that. It would be interesting to have a sort of 2nd Life in Virtual Earth. Where it takes place in more realistic setting and realistic people, don’t you? That would be neat."
Interesting, don’t you think?
February 29th, 2008 at 5:47 pm
Hi guys,
Its great to see the models out in the open and being talked about. It was a challenging project and I am glad the results have been recieved well!
It cirtainly is interesting times. I just returned from a conference where second life was mentioned. The speaker apparently purchased a pair of trainers for his character costing a real £30 and then lost them. How funny is that? It cirtainly takes online shopping to a new level.
Chris
March 4th, 2008 at 12:10 am
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March 4th, 2008 at 1:12 pm
Chris,
The results have been great - it takes real examples to show what can be accomplished with the new technologies.
On the second life topic - sounds like a business opportunity to have a detective agency to find your lost or stolen items.
March 18th, 2008 at 6:28 pm
Cool!