Sample Crest Nicholson iPad App Screen 1Virtual Viewing has been working closely with Crest Nicholson to produce a revolutionary new iPad app that transforms the delivery of off-plan property sales.

The new app uses touchscreen technology and the portability and ease of use of the tablet computer to seamlessly blend together a rich tapestry of information that incorporates

• development plans
• floorplans
• property specifications
• CGI images
• photos
• video and 3d animation.

Sample Crest Nicholson iPad App Screen 2Without the restrictions of print formats, every aspect of property sales can be presented in the way that is most compelling and captivating. As well as interactively displaying text and images, the app can also play video tours and 3d flythroughs, creating an immersive and dramatic environment that brings an enthralling and exciting realism.

Linked to wall-mounted flat-screen displays, the app can turn a site office visit into a persuasive cinematic experience. Taking the technology one-step beyond, the app can also control a physical model, using remotely controlled lighting to highlight different aspects and elements of a complex multi-phase development.

Sample Crest Nicholson iPad App Screen 3Linked to easily updated web-based admin systems to ensure the latest updates are automatically downloaded at every use, development, availability and property details are fully searchable by a range of criteria – property type, size, location, price, number of bedrooms, etc.

The app will continue to scale as further phases of the development are released for sale, with each phase viewable separately.

For more information, call Virtual Viewing on 01908 930 300.

Designing for Counter-TerrorismLimited places available

Thursday 6 October 2011
RIBA London
66 Portland Place
London W1B 1AD

Join us for a senior level conference discussing design, construction,
3d visualisation, future planning and key counter terrorism
initiatives for the built environment.

Designing for Counter-TerrorismHaving already been commissioned by the National Counter Terrorism Security Office (NaCTSO) to produce a 3d animated video to support the promotion of the Vulnerability Self-Assessment Tool (VSAT) – a project to assist owners, operators and those responsible for the security of crowded places in minimising their potential exposure to terrorist attacks – we will be joining a wide range of leading built environment and security organisations at the one-day Designing for Counter-Terrorism conference.

Driven by the Home Office, and organised in partnership with the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), Designing for Counter-Terrorism brings together government ministries and agencies, occupiers and built environment professionals to discover how new policy will affect their treatment of security and resilience.

The conference will explore a range of design issues in relation to counter terrorism, including:

  • An overview of the key points in the government’s policy and guidance for safer places
  • The benefits of incorporating security early on in the design process
  • Why 3d city models can empower policy making
  • Protective security: why and where it matters
  • Technologies of resilience: Materials and structural design
  • The final debate: “Is security at odds with the public space?

Stewart Bailey, Virtual Viewing’s MD, will deliver a presentation as part of the conference – Virtual Reality: Protection with visualisations – that will address a number of key issues where virtual reality and 3d City Modelling can be deployed to support a range of professions in assessing and reducing public risk:

  • How can VR help us understand the risk in the real world?
  • How scenario planning can be visualised and trained for
  • Making CT guidance more accessible
  • Multiple scenarios, multiple threats, one model

Download a copy of the Designing for Counter-Terrorism Conference Programme (PDF)

For information on the conference, or about Virtual Viewing’s 3d City Modelling services, please contact Yve Wallace by email or by telephone on 01908 933933.

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Virtual Viewing receive the Socitm Supplier Excellence Award 2010

© Socitim Press Office, 2010

We’re delighted to announce that our project in partnership with the London Borough of Redbridge, the Ilford Blueprint (visit the website or download a Case Study (PDF)), has won a Socitim 2010 Local Government IT Excellence Award for Supplier Excellence at the Socitim Annual Conference in Brighton. The competition highlights public sector IT projects that improve the efficiency and delivery of services within local communities.

The Ilford Blueprint Online – which already created a major splash at the Property Lynx conference – is a web-based marketing tool that incorporates 3D visualisation of development potential in the borough using Virtual Viewing’s Massive Scale Modelling technology. Socitm said the project team has combined web based commerce and gaming technology with planning policy and regeneration, to promote development opportunity sites identified in Ilford’s Area Action Plan.

Judith Carlson, project manager for regeneration at the London Borough of Redbridge, said the project represented a “cutting edge approach to promoting Ilford, the borough’s main town centre, with technologies widely used in the film and gaming industries that brings the council’s vision to life”. And she applauded Virtual Viewing as making the Ilford town centre area action plan “more accessible by developing a user-friendly interface for developers”.
[Image © Socitim Press Office, 2010]

The Ilford Blueprint websiteAs you may have already read in an earlier post, we were proud to recently jointly unveil the Ilford Blueprint website with our development partners in the Planning and Regeneration Unit at the London Borough of Redbridge.

The product of several months’ working in a highly embedded way with the Unit on a true joint venture basis, the site combines our OSCAR content management system for ease and flexibility of up-date with groundbreaking use of our 3d modelling technologies. The whole project was supported throughout by our skills in project management, place making and urban design, as well as our in-depth technical capabilities.

The result – in the words of Chris Berry, the Borough’s Chief Planning and Regeneration Officer – provides:

… focussed, reliable, detailed and accessible technical information to a level not previously provided by a local authority. Virtual Viewing’s contribution to the Borough initiative cannot be underestimated:  their services and capabilities extended far beyond technical expertise, to include 3d modelling, urban design and bringing reality to policy-making, all of which were provided as a true ‘joint venture’ operation.

You can download (in PDF format) a copy of a promotional mailer that has subsequently been sent to several hundred members of the London investment and development community, providing a powerful testimonial for a project about which we are as proud as our development partners.

Responsible for inward investment and investor development, North London Business (NLB) is funded by both the London Development Agency and by Boroughs, and runs Property Linx conferences focused on maximising investment in infrastructure, residential and mixed used developments and allowing Boroughs to profile themselves to the investment community. Each conference attracts 200-350 invited property professionals, developers, agents, and landowners.

The most recent Property Linx conference, which was expanded to include an “Agents, Consultants and Contractors” corner, was held on 24 June 2010 with a focus on one of Virtual Viewing’s web development and 3d city modelling clients – the London Borough of Redbridge. Senior Borough politicians and staff from the Borough’s Planning and Regeneration team were among speakers at the event, which shone a spotlight on their plans for the development of Ilford Town Centre, its retail offering, quality of life and excellent transport connectivity.

The Invest Ilford WebsiteLondon Borough of Redbridge also used the event to launch a new website (opens in a new browser window), developed through a partnership with Virtual Viewing, that specifically targets property and investment professionals.

Fully manageable through our OSCAR content management solution, the fully bespoke site will enable the Borough to provide a wealth of up-to-date information on the local area (including demographic data and profiles of different property sectors).

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Virtual Viewing has been working with Istropolitana Ogilvy, a Slovak advertising agency that has been acquired by Ogilvy & Mather, on a nationwide campaign for t-com – known as T-mobile in the UK and one of Slovakia’s major mobile telecommunications service providers.

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Image of the City, Bratislava, May 2010After launching our 3D City Modelling capability at the MIPIM 2010 Conference and Exhibition in Cannes in March, Virtual Viewing has recently been invited to participate in a second pan-European event to demonstrate both our technical expertise and our understanding of – and strength of service in – the broader aspects of urban design, city planning and place-making. The Image of the City Conference was held in Bratislava on 11 May, and featured speakers from five countries who represented professions and disciplines as diverse as architecture, graphic design, philosophy and economics.

The Conference took its name from an influential book, written by Kevin Lynch in 1960, that drew on the results of a five-year study on how people perceive spatial information as they navigate through the urban landscape. Like much of his work, it is concerned with finding ways of harnessing what we know about how we ‘see’ cities as the basis for good urban design.

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VV meet Boris Johnson at MIPIM 2010Encouraged by the extremely positive feedback received after working across Europe and the UK with local authorities, city planners and investment developers hungry for a 3d modelling solution, Virtual Viewing exhibited its own groundbreaking, innovative and extremely cost effective 3d technology at the largest property show in Europe; MIPIM 2010, in March this year.

During his tour of the City of London stand, Mr Johnson – seen here with Virtual Viewing MD, Stewart Bailey – was clearly impressed when he stopped at the Virtual Viewing stand, urging us to “speak to the London Development Agency!” by way of both praise and encouragement as he left the stand.

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MIPIM 2010We’ve been developing our portfolio of 3d virtual city and architectural modelling solutions for several years now, but now we’re taking the time to train the spotlight not on a fully rendered city centre or a pioneering architectural development … but on ourselves. This March, we are taking the opportunity to put ourselves on the international stage and show that we are ready to take our place amongst the very best in the industry.

Encouraged by the extremely positive feedback that we’ve had from city authorities and investment developers across Europe, Virtual Viewing will be exhibiting our innovative solutions at the MIPIM and MIPIM Horizons Conferences, taking place in Cannes from 16-19 March.

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ISG 3d PresentationWhile many organisations now recognise the potential power of 3d modelling to make presentations of architectural or building projects compelling, many overlook the potential to embed animated 3d flythroughs into presentations outside of the web arena.

Yet embedding a 3d flythrough into a conventional Powerpoint file can overcome both technical and presentational issues. As well as avoiding the familiar anxiety of using hastily implemented Internet connections to demonstrate to a live audience (where many readers will have had experiences they don’t wish to repeat), this approach can allow you to combine a broad range of media within a single presentation.

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