Virtual City and Virtual Bilboards
No Comments | February 16th, 2007

After months of rumors, its official now that Google has acquire a company called adscapemedia for 23 million dollars. Adscape is a video game advertising company that place dynamic ads right inside the game. This is an interesting development considering Google’s acquisition of Sketchup, and with the combination of Google Earth, a virtual world with [...]



AutoCAD 2007 Google Earth Addon
1 Comment | July 1st, 2006

Google Earth and SketchUp is a deadly combination, knowing the threat, the people at Autodesk has just release a new addon for AutoCAD 2007. A plugin that enable AutoCAD user to export their 3D to Google Earth’s KML file. The Google Earth Extension work with AutoCAD 2007, Architectural Desktop 2007, Autodesk® Civil 3D 2007, and [...]



Google Acquired SketchUp
No Comments | March 17th, 2006

I was screaming my head out when I first read this sad news at Core77 and ArchiDose. According to SketchUp official statement it seems that Google bought up SketchUp and the parent company - @last software due to flexibility in inserting 3D models in Google Earth.
If you’ve never seen it, Google Earth lets you explore [...]




     

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    Currently studying Architecture in Curtin University, Western Australia. Calvin loves web designing and photography, occasionally he blogs about his thoughts and opinions.

    Every morning he refill himself with weird energy-inducing substances known as coffee and tea and then off saving the world, I mean studying and blogging of course.

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