40th Anniversary of SPACE INVADERS

DaftnDirect said:

I'm trying to develop a VR version of London for overlaying interesting information but I'd used a method of converting Google Earth data into 3ds max, now I'm trying to get all the data from open sources cos I doubt Google would have been ok with it. Ordinance Survey is proving useful but I'm practically starting again from scratch.

The english Environmental Agency was going to release 11TB of LIDAR scans to the public covering 72% of england with resolution ranging from 2m to 25cm. That was 2 years ago, I'm not sure how much has actually come out. But there's point clouds and terrain data for london at their website: http://environment.data.gov.uk/ds/survey/index.jsp#/survey?grid=TQ28

Some cities are very open to this stuff. Adelaide City Council has 3d models of the city released under the Creative Commons Attribution license on their government website. I've worked with their data before (while waiting for the Brisbane City Council to give us the much inferior data we had to jump through hoops to get).

Technolust has a Space Invaders like game in the arcade if I recall correctly. That was one of the best features of the game. Playing VR arcade games inside a VR game. It would be awesome if there was a Technolust 2

zboson said:

Technolust has a Space Invaders like game in the arcade if I recall correctly. That was one of the best features of the game. Playing VR arcade games inside a VR game. It would be awesome if there was a Technolust 2

Yeah, thanks for this - I was also wondering about that "VR Arcade Hall" idea that was promoted around the Milk launch?

Anyway, its clear that something happened, as the concept lost traction and has been swept under the carpet along with RockBand VR! May be it will be revived now that we have new leadership?