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The number of interesting applications for the near future is great. A truly functional virtual reality platform has to cope with a number of different use cases from city planning to elderly care or teleconferencing software. Virtual reality’s strongest points are interpersonal communications applications and human-technology interfaces; the true value of the extended web is in connecting the real world with the new user interface. Top 5 applications for realXtend (in our own opinion): Virtual meeting tools Reduce travel costs and enhance quality over traditional telephone and video conferences Collaboration and social interaction Imagine your team members sharing applications and thoughts while they are geographically distributed, but virtually co-located. Advanced user interface Complex applications, such as home automation control, are easier to understand and use when they are presented in 3D applications. Collaborative Games realXtend is an ideal platform to make novel multiplayer game titles. It features many aspects that do not exist anywhere else. Collaboration, co-building and dynamic worlds offer rich possibilities for entirely new kinds of games. Visualisation technologies Visualize enormous amounts of data and make it comprehensible for the end user. For example, building information models and architect's drawings can be presented as a 3D world, where users can walk around and visualize how things are going to look.

Cybertecture integrates technology, multimedia, intelligent systems and user interactivity to create customizable living and working spaces that focus on experience. The Cybertecture Egg takes this principle working theme a step further with ‘cybertecture health’ - interactive features that monitor occupant’s vital health statistics, like blood pressure and weight. In keeping with the focus on health and wellness, users can customize their views with real time virtual scenery. The oblong office building incorporates passive solar design to decrease heat gain and lower energy loads. An elevated garden also moderates temperate by using natural vegetation to assist with cooling the building envelope. The Cybertecture Egg will use solar photovoltaic panels and rooftop wind turbines to generate onsite electricity. Water conservation will be managed with a greywater recycling system that will harvest water for irrigation and landscaping. It is also said that we can see this futuristic “Cybertecture Egg” building by the end of 2010. So, let’s wait and see…

Put your city on the 3D map Engage the public by featuring your city's buildings, landmarks and terrain on Google Earth. If your local government is like many around the world, you've invested in developing a 3D model representing buildings in your city's downtown--perhaps your entire jurisdiction. Or, maybe you haven't yet produced a 3D model, but you've collected the geospatial data necessary for producing a model. With Google's Cities in 3D Program, your local government can share this 3D data with the public by adding a model of your city to Google Earth. More than 350 million Internet users have turned to Google Earth to better understand and navigate their world.

ORAMBRA: a carbon neutral office carbonfund.org EXHIBIT: MAKE IT WORK - Engineering Possibilities (2009) The Center For Architecture, AIANY PANEL: Multidisciplinary Innovation (4 Feb 2009) The Center For Architecture, AIANY MEDIA: Discovery Science TV (2008) Weird Connections: Episode 10 Balkon Contemporary Art (2008) Magazine Article: "Mechanikus ter, biologiai ido" MEDIA: BBC World Service (2007) BBC MEDIA: ABC Radio National (2007) ABC Newsweek Polska (2007) NEWSWEEK.COM MEDIA: Wired (2006) WIRED MEDIA: The Economist (2006) ECONOMIST MEDIA: CNN Future Summit (2006) CNN MEDIA: Technik / Zeit Wissen (2006) Zeit Wissen MEDIA: Except from ACADIA (2006) Link MEDIA: ArchitectureWeek (2006) Link MEDIA: Radio Adelaide 101.5 (2005) Radio Adelaide PROJECT: Filamentosa Ultra-lightweight Skyscaper (2004) Project PROJECT: Lotus Environmental Sensor Network (2004) Project PROJECT: frais Chicago (2003) Project PROJECT: ideaCloud Grange Beach (1998) Project PROTOTYPE: Films 1 & 2 (actuated class 3) Prototype PROTOTYPE: Films 3 & 4 (actuated class 3) Prototype PROTOTYPE: Films 5 & 6 (actuated class 2) Prototype PROTOTYPE: Films 7 & 8 (actuated class 2) Prototype PAPER: Using Actutated Tensegrity (2003) Paper PAPER: Structural Shape Control (2006) Paper PAPER: CAAD for Responsive Architecture (2007) Paper PAPER: Hybridized Control (2003) Paper PAPER: User Centered Interactions (2006) Paper PAPER: Cybernetic Form (2000) Paper