Our Documentation wiki has been updated to reflect recent work on the integration of 2D and 3D content, as well as live editing of the VR space from within the environment.
We've upgraded to MediaWiki and disabled anonymous editing, which should help keep a lid on the spam that we were getting earlier

You might also like to check out some videos of planet-earth in action.

Viveka and Chris are attending SIGGRAPH 2005 in Los Angeles. Ping is supporting the Australasian and South-East Asian Reception, which will be held from will be held from 5 to 6 PM this Sunday at the International Center.

Chris will be presenting a paper on his method for integrating web3D application components directly via HTTP. We will also be presenting at the Carto Project BOF alongside representatives from the International Cartographic Association, the Web 3D Consortium, the developers of Xj3D and Google Earth.

In case you're wondering where we've been for the last few months; Chris has been writing a technical paper submission for SIGGRAPH 2005 and working on his Ph.D on large VR environments, Miriam and I have submitted a short paper for the same, Damian is working on his X3D parser for Shockwave/Director 3D; and I'm working with Jack (from JBDD) on a 3D City Strategy document commissioned by the City of Sydney Council.

The source code for the entire project (now including the server code) is now available at sourceforge.

You can find the documentation to install the vearth server on windows here.

We now have a demo site up at ACME Real Estate, to demostrate the customisability of the planet-earth engine.

Milestone 4, the planet-earth real estate search and publishing engine is complete, and available to the public. This is presented to demonstrate the capabilities of the planet-earth system and the 3map geospatial VR search and publishing engine.

Today our Associate Jack Barton is presenting his paper Public Participation in a Spatial Decision Support System for Public Housing (written at UNSW with Jim Plume and Bruno Parolin) at the 24th Urban Data Management Symposium in Venice.

Tomorrow (Saturday) is the Federal Election here in Oz. To celebrate, we'll be launching the new Sydney planet-earth server, along with various demonstrations of participatory democracy.

You're all invited - particularly if you happen to be able to make it to -33.89007, 151.25319 (note: southern hemisphere :) by tomorrow.

Welcome to the public beta of the Ping website, version 2. While we get things in order, our old website is still available.