Posted by Mike Lucey
All News, Animation, Browser 3D
Thursday, October 13th, 2011

I just got word about a potential browser based Google SketchUp viewer that I think many SketchUp users will find interesting. It might put an end to having to send .skp files that you would prefer to keep ‘in shop’! I understand that there will be a trial launched soon and after a period of [...]
Posted by Csaba Pozsárkó
All News, Browser 3D, Plug-ins, Render
Thursday, June 9th, 2011

LightUp 2.1.e has just been released. As developer Adam Billyard posted, there have been some bug fixes regarding ATI cards and some new features included as well. Fix for missing faces on ATI cards improved bloom cutoff Better Physical sky at low Turbidity Realtime adjust of Sun position (see video below) Export 360 spherical panorama [...]
Posted by Coen Naninck
All News, Applications, Browser 3D, Streetview
Wednesday, September 15th, 2010

Israeli based Quiksee has been acquired by Google recently in an attempt to bring about their Streetview technology inside buildings. The Quiksee website shows a video explaining the process of recording a video of your home and uploading it to Google. If it were April 1st, you might have thought this to be a joke, [...]
Posted by Csaba Pozsárkó
All News, Applications, Browser 3D
Friday, August 27th, 2010

Lately I have been exploring possibilities to display 3D content interactively on the web. This can be for commercial purposes, too, but my primary goal is mainly educational. The other day my attention was brought to 3DVIA, an apparently cool and probably very effective ways to do this (I have yet to fully explore the [...]
Posted by Csaba Pozsárkó
Browser 3D
Tuesday, January 19th, 2010

As Simlab Soft has just announced, the new version of their 3D PDF Plugin for SketchUp is available. With the plugin, one can easily export a SketchUp model into 3D PDF that can be viewed on any computer without any additional software other than the free Adobe Reader. The new version includes an existing list [...]
Posted by Csaba Pozsárkó
Applications, Browser 3D
Thursday, May 14th, 2009

We caught this new technology – which isn’t directly Google SketchUp related, yet very interesting for the community – yesterday and decided to report it. “JavaScriptObject is an application to publish 3D models in a userfriendly way. It does not requiere any applets, plugins or similar. JavaScriptObject works with every browser, that can handle images [...]