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REFLECTION ThingLink

11/10/2024
ThingLink is a well-established visual authoring tool for creating embedded, interactive media for the web. It has expanded support for immersive (360) photos in recent iterations. There’s a suite of...
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REFLECTION Matterport

11/10/2024
Matterport is a service and set of authoring tools that generates virtual representations of spaces from 360-degree images and allows their publication. Those spaces can be “stitched” together, allowing contiguous...
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REFLECTION VR Sketch

11/10/2024
SketchUp was by far my favourite tool to use in the development of 3D environments during the course of my study. However, SketchUp is predominantly aimed at a market of...
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REFLECTION Rec Room

11/10/2024
Rec Room is one of the most advanced of the extant “metaverse” apps, despite very clearly being aimed at children. Again, I focused on building in Rec Room and though...
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REFLECTION SketchFab

11/10/2024
Active for over a decade, SketchFab is a platform for distributing 3D models. When describing it to others I often find myself calling it “YouTube for 3D models”, because the...
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REFLECTION Spatial.io

11/10/2024
Spatial is a developing platform that, on the surface, seems to be a metaverse app for hosting VR spaces with multiple users – though it’s one with several unique factors...
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REFLECTION Polycam

11/10/2024
PolyCam is a platform for sharing photogrammetrically captured 3D models and a mobile app for photogrammetric capture. I have explored the latter use in the most depth, as there are...
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REFLECTION SketchUp

11/10/2024
SketchUp is a 3D digital model and architectural drawing tool that began life as a Google project (the free app, “Google SketchUp”). It is now a commercial application developed by...
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REFLECTION Hubs etc

11/10/2024
This is a compound reflection on both Mozilla Hubs and A-Frame. Together, this platform and framework were the key open-source development environments for VR online during the period of study....
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REFLECTION Modelur

11/10/2024
Modelur is a SketchUp extension, which adds functionality to SketchUp. Its main purpose is to add architectural features to maps imported in SketchUp quickly and easily. Rather than being a...