|
New Websites
As an organisation with commercial imperatives as well as a not-for-profit mandate, we have sometimes found it difficult to answer the “What is Nextspace?” question. To this end, we have now separated our two functions and published two new website. Have a look at www.nextspace.co.nz and www.nextspace.org.nz. Feedback is always appreciated.
 
|
Digital Earth Summit
Richard Simpson presented a keynote address at the 3rd Digital Earth Summit in mid June. The summit was held in the Bulgarian city of Nessebar, a world heritage site. Richard’s topic was “The visual City – Establishing A Language of Progression for Digital Earth in An Urban Context.” Richard is also on the editorial board for the International Journal of Digital Earth, and was recently appointed Chair of the Digital Cities Working Committee. Senior representatives from organisations such as NASA, Japanese Space Exploration Agency (JAXA), European Commission, Chinese Academy of Sciences, UN are on this working committee. For more information see, http://www.digitalearth-isde.org/
|
 |
3D in Education
Brenda Frisk was a keynote speaker for the second year running at the annual Tech Hui on 15 June 2010 in Wellington. Tech Hui is advertised as “a chance for high school students to hear from a selection of high fliers in New Zealand’s innovative IT scene”. http://techhui.org.nz/home
Brenda’s topic was how students can prepare themselves for a career in the IT Industry. Some issues Brenda covered were: managing your online reputation, the need to communicate in multiple ways, being willing to learn and how to ’stand-out’ to future employers.
|
 |
ANZAC Bridge
Richard Simpson’s presentation “The Auckland Harbour Crossing – How the Anzac Centenary Bridge could generate great economic outcomes” to the Transport Infrastructure & Economic Development Conference in Auckland on 27 April was well received.
There has also been a lot of development with the bridge in the past few months with NZTA having called for tenders to review the bridge option. More information at www.bridge2015.org.nz.
|
3D model developed by Nextspace
|
3D Visualisation Cluster
The May 3D Visualisation cluster meeting was held at the AUT Co-Lab’s Virtual Reality Lab immediately after the VR Lab’s official opening. Cluster members were able to view the Lab’s new equipment and hear plans for joint AUT / industry projects going forward. The next cluster meeting with be held on Thursday August 12th at the Nextspace premises, unless anyone else in interested in hosting. Join the cluster group on LinkedIn to keep up to date: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1192987
|
 |
Right Hemisphere
|
 |
|
John Valentine appointed new Vice President of Engineering. Right Hemisphere Contributes Visualization Technology to SAP’s Complex Assembly Manufacturing Solution (CAMS). Right Hemisphere and Flatirons Solutions Bring Advanced 3D Capabilities to DITA-Based Technical Publishing. See http://www.righthemisphere.com/company/news-and-events/press-releases for more detail.
|
Food for Thought
Mobile 3D City looks good – Currently for iPhone, this is a collection of interactive, 3D tourism guides developed specifically for mobile devices. Check out the numerous points of interest in Paris on the demo video http://www.mobile3dcity.com/
Virtual 3D city on iPad demo – Great stuff happening in the 3D world, see the demo video on YouTube. Think – combining this with GIS and other multi-dimensional data to create a 3D visual interface to the myriad of rich data about our cities currently hidden away and inaccessible.
Visual communication can mean many things. See the infosthetics website for some interesting uses of data visualisation to communicate information http://infosthetics.com/
|
|
