We'll soon be releasing a new version of our 3D office search app for our data partner Altus Group. Here's a look at all the available direct and sublease office space in central Calgary, as of August 1st 2017. These visualizations will soon be available for all the major office markets in Canada.
We're now able to add fire, smoke and fireworks effects to our apps with the latest version of CesiumJS. The mapping software now includes a robust particle system that provides developers with these highly customizable new particle visualizations. This will be an effective mechanism to communicate building emergencies, industrial air pollution and floor level information systems for first responders.
Follow these links to learn more about the fireworks and fire effects now available in Cesium 1.35.
Cesium firework effects above the Empire State Building
We've built a simple website for users to quickly highlight floors or buildings with our new Coverage App. This is an easy way to create imagery for real estate presentations that can quickly communicate building, tenant or market information. The app works in any of the 50 cities around the world that have been enabled in the Cube Cities system and can be expanded to any urban areas on request.
Watch the video below to see how it works:
Login to the app here. Contact us to setup a demo user account.
We've been included for a second time in KPMG's Real Estate Innovators Overview produced by their global headquarters in Amsterdam. It's exciting to be listed amongst companies like Floored and Matterport as the top innovators in the world for virtual reality and 3D applications in real estate. Find the latest edition of the survey here.
We attended the 2017 MIPIM property show in Cannes last week to see what was new in the world of real estate development and marketing technology. We were pleased to see our customers Ivanhoé Cambridge and Altus Group in attendance at this premier event for large and small participants in almost every sector of the real estate industry. Interior visualization company Matterport was also at the show along with many other new technology firms focused on space visualization and geomatics. MIPIM will organize a technology focused event, Proptech in New York on October 11th this year which we look forward to attending.
Of special note at MIPIM were the major installations of city models from local city governments across the world, especially the exhibits put on by the City of London, Paris, Moscow, Istanbul and Dubai. The show is primarily an investment-oriented event where institutional funds from around the globe can come together to get a sense of the hottest up and coming projects to invest capital.
AusPat, the Australian Government's IP authority has granted a patent to Cube Cities for our 3D visualization technology for buildings. We're excited about the potential of deploying our services to Australian cities and leveraging this new IP asset. Read more about our Australian patent here.
Cube Cities has developed an innovative process of geolocating Matterport-captured space within a building. Using our coordinate-based drawing system, we can highlight exactly where a Matterport space is located in a property. The result is improved spatial awareness of where space is located on a floor or multiple floors, how the space is oriented and its relation to neighbouring properties.
Additionally, the service allows a Matterport user's collection of VR spaces to be visualized across a skyline.
Cube Cities provides this process as a low cost service to make it easy for Matterport users to showcase their spaces in any property in the world using our floor-level 3D building technology. Contact us for pricing.
Up close with a Matterport space in 3D
Matterport space on the 16th floor of 225 West Washington in Chicago's West Loop
Looking down on a Matterport space
225 West Washington's location in the Chicago Loop
We're happy to be included by KPMG in their global survey of real estate technology innovators. Cube Cities is featured alongside companies such as Floored and Matterport in a group of only 7 companies in their Virtual Reality and 3D category.
Have a Matterport virtual tour of an office space to share? Here's an example of how Cube Cities can precisely geolocate the Matterport tour on a building floor and show the space in our 3D city environment using Cesium. This helps communicate exactly where office or retail space is located in a building, how the space is demised and where the view looks out onto.
Try our Matterport demo to go inside a floor in Chicago's 225 W. Washington office building.
In 2013 The Municipal Art Society of New York published a report called The Accidental Skyline that investigated the shadows that will be cast onto Central Park from the supertall skyscrapers under construction and planned for midtown and especially along 57th Street. The report contains examples of traditional urban planning diagrams that illustrate the shadow projections from different times of year and allow stakeholders to understand the extensive shadowing that many of these "pencil towers"will project over the park.
Using the shadow functionality now available with Cesium, we've created a visualization of this shadowing phenomenon from eight of the largest buildings recently constructed and planned for midtown. The video shows the shadows casted by the buildings as the sun rises and sets on September 21st, the same date chosen by the MAS as indicative of a typical fall day in Manhattan. Watch the visualization below:
Note: Video timeline is in UTC, which is 4hrs ahead of EST.
Visualizations like these are not only important urban planning tools but are necessary communication devices to help the public understand the impact to public spaces from large developments and allow for informed civic engagement.
Contact us to see the same shadowing visualization for any building in the world in our new Shadow Casting app.
