Spectra Cities

Do you think SDXL did a good job?🤔

We've been experimenting with AI for imagining new urban designs💭 Using #SDXL 1.0 and #ComfyUI, we had some fun "building ideas from pixels to bricks" with #Minecraft Spectra Cities🏙️ (see more in thread🖼️)

Have you ever wondered where your food comes from? Learn more about how Spectra wants to grow food locally again with urban agriculture (click the pic). medium.com/spectra-cities…

How rare are safe public spaces in cities? Learn more about how Spectra redesigns public space from the ground up with multilevel streetlife (click the pic). medium.com/spectra-cities…

Taking off our VR headsets for a minute, we took it back to the 2010s with a new blog series: "Ten Stories of Urban Design" Here are the first three stories on streetlife, public space, and urban agriculture (see thread).

Happening now: Spectra Cities founder @ryanrz shares about our project and related initiatives!

I dream of virtual street corners that are not only collectively experienced but also collectively owned and negotiated. Concept diagram showing the relationship between a virtual sandbox and real cities. Our work @numenavr for @SpectraCities, a CC0 city.

@numenavr Create your own apps using our open-source toolkit: spectracities.com/source-city-to… Let us know what you create!

Amazing work from @numenavr using @spectracities free 3d assets👏

Our "pixels to bricks" approach means experiencing the form & feel of urban designs in real-time & scale. With 2 sliders, discover how width & height affect mobility, public space, density, and climate resilience before 1 brick is laid. Urbanism is more accessible than ever!

This year I experienced a very broad spectrum of urbanism. Gleaming towers in Dubai and Singapore. Narrow walkways in Venice and Bali. Lush greenways in Seoul and Milan. Today I experienced all of these conditions in a few minutes using a new VR tool from @numenavr using @spectracities 3d assets. A simple hand-tracking slider allows you to instantly change your street from narrow path to shared use street to highway to greenway. The app lets you change building heights from single story, to midrise, to skyscraper. And you can mix and match heights and widths to make your perfect street. The beauty of building Spectra as a virtual city first is that we can experiment on the form and show people how simple urban design decisions radically change how people feel in a city.

We're honored to be a VR Awards finalist with our colleagues at @numenavr

2/ ◾@numenavr and @SpectraCities – Spectra Cities ◾@timestudiosfilm/ @flightschoolHQ / Meta VR For Good – MLK: Now Is The Time

@ryanrz we're live! join us from the link: spatial.io/s/Spectra-Farm…

Join us at 10a est today as we reimagine the first two buildings on the farm as the ultimate 21st century community clubhouse. Co-working space, content recording studio, kids club, lounge, commercial kitchen, gym, media room. What amenities would you like to see?

Coming up tomorrow at 10:00am EST! Don't miss our second virtual design workshop for a real Spectra project. This might be our most interactive session yet so bring your ideas! linkedin.com/events/frompix…

¡Buen domingo, amigos de X! El jueves hay un taller en @SpectraCities sobre diseño de interiores. Más información en el servidor de este proyecto hermoso👇🏼❤️

We're looking forward to our next workshop on virtual interior design for an IRL project this thursday! Make sure to rsvp on discord for a reminder and watch the visitor center channel for the link! discord.gg/ZXkPC4Tgtp?eve…

This week @SpectraCities hosted a permaculture and agroforestry workshop in @Spatial_io. It was surprising how well normally offline activities translated to VR. Can’t wait to implement these techniques on the farm. youtu.be/2-9-LSuNDm0

@Sofi_VCarrillo Muchas gracias Sofi! Hoy compartimos un video corto con clips del evento. todos son bienvenidos a unirse a nuestro próximo taller el 17! youtube.com/watch?v=2-9-LS…

¿Qué les parece la permacultura? Después del taller quiero diseñar jardines por todos lados, tal vez empiece a hacerlo 😍 ¡No olviden compartir para que esto tan bonito llegue a más personas! (8/8)

¿Cómo va el día, amigos de X-Twitter! En este jueves de diseño urbano con metaversos les quiero contar lo que aprendí esta semana sobre permacultura, en el gran taller que organizó @SpectraCities. ¡Veamos cómo podemos aplicarlo en el diseño! (1/8)🧵👇