We at Infiscape are pleased to announce the open source release of vrkit, a new C++ library built on top of VR Juggler and OpenSG. vrkit combines the best of both to facilitate the rapid creation of feature-rich, cluster-ready immersive applications for Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows. vrkit requires OpenSG 1.8 and VR Juggler 2.0 or newer. The best results being achieved using VR Juggler 2.2 or newer, especially on Windows.
Clustering is done by combining input device sharing and synchronization from VR Juggler with scene graph distribution from OpenSG. The "master" node of the cluster runs the full application while all the other nodes run a simple "slave" application whose only job is to render the scene graph delivered by OpenSG. Through the power of OpenSG, data is loaded once on the master node and then distributed to all the other nodes at run time over the cluster network. Immersive application features are developed and deployed using plug-ins that are combined at run time through one or more configuration files. vrkit currently comes with 26 plug-ins that offer features such as dynamic grabbable object discovery, navigation, video capture, and model switching. New plug-ins can be added easily to extend the feature set of any vrkit-based application. By using the standard vrkit application, known as vrkit_app, application developers can focus on developing componentized, reusable application features rather than on reimplementing the same low-level application details over and over. vrkit is currently at version 0.48.3, and we are pushing for a stable 1.0 release in the very near future. Many of the plug-ins are very stable and are suitable for use in production environments now. Others are in an alpha or beta state. We welcome feedback and submissions to improve all parts of the software. More information is available on the vrkit Trac site: https://realityforge.vrsource.org/trac/vrkit Mailing lists for vrkit have been set up, and information about them is available here: https://realityforge.vrsource.org/trac/vrkit/wiki/MailingLists People interested in joining the vrkit development team should subscribe to the vrkit-devel mailing list to get involved. The source for version 0.48.3 can be downloaded from the Subversion repository using this URL: https://realityforge.vrsource.org/svn/vrkit Instructions for compiling the source are available in the README.txt file that comes with the source tree. More documentation will be forthcoming. -Patrick -- Patrick L. Hartling VP Engineering, Infiscape Corp. http://www.infiscape.com/
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