Hi, feel free to post this on the OSG group page at LinkedIn.
(FYI, there are now 386 members!) cheers -- mew -- Mike Weiblen -- Black Hawk, Colorado USA -- http://mew.cx/ On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 8:51 AM, Brett Wiesner <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear OSG community, > > > > There's less than two months left in the VR-Vantage Innovation Contest! > Submit a cool OSG based demo and you can win! > > As you may know, VT MÄK is the vendor of the VR-Vantage visualization > product line, which is based on OSG. We would like to invite you, the > members of the OSG community, to participate in a visualization innovation > contest that we are sponsoring. We are offering cash prizes of up to $1,500 > for the winners! > > http://www.mak.com/vrvcontest/ > > > > All you have to do is build something that demo’s well! It could be code > that you’ve written or a 3rd party nodekit that you’ve integrated, or a cool > terrain and scenario… Just build a cool demo using VR-Vantage and you could > win! > > > > In order to be eligible, your demo must run within the VR-Vantage framework > that we've built on top of OSG. We will provide free temporary runtime and > developer licenses of VR-Vantage to those who intend to participate in the > contest, along with some basic support to help you understand how to fit > your OSG-based code, models or simulation in. > > > > Entries must be submitted by Oct 31st, 2010 (before 11:59pm). Winners will > be announced to the OSG mailing list (and at the IITSEC Tradeshow) on Nov > 29th, 2010. > > > > Here are the details: > > > > 1) By submitting an entry, you are agreeing to allow MAK and our sales > distributors to use and promote your work - to show it at tradeshows, > reference it on our web site, capture and show video and screenshots, etc. > The idea is that we want to be able to demonstrate what's possible using > VR-Vantage, and in particular demonstrate that OSG-based code can be easily > incorporated into VR-Vantage-based applications. > > > > 2) All you need to provide is an executable, plug-in (source code is > optional but preferred) or configuration files (with instructions). > VR-Vantage runs on both Windows and Linux platforms. Obviously, you also > need to include any data that is required for us to run your demo. > > > > 3) The contest will be judged by a panel of simulation experts. Entries > will be judged based on creativity, visual quality, and on how well they > meet our goal of demonstrating what's possible in a VR-Vantage-based > application. > > > > 4) If there are three or more entries that we decide are compelling enough > to use in our marketing efforts, we will pay three prizes: > > Winner: $1,500 (USD) > > 2nd place: $1,000 > > 3rd place: $500 > > The first place winner will also receive a permanent VR-Vantage developer’s > license. > > > > 5) If we do use your work, we will always give proper attribution. We don't > want to take credit for your work! > > > > 6) Please make sure that you are only submitting work that you own, or that > you have the legal right to distribute. > > > > If you want to participate, please visit http://www.mak.com/vrvcontest/ for > download links and entry submission instructions. > > > > For official rules, see http://www.mak.com/vrvcontest/contest-rules.php > > > > Good luck! > > > > Brett Wiesner > > Product Manager, Visualize Products > > VT MAK > > www.mak.com > > > > ====== > > The VR-Vantage product line includes: > > - VR-Vantage Stealth - an OSG-based battlefield visualization tool > > - VR-Vantage IG - a CIGI-compliant, commercial, OSG-based IG > > - VR-Vantage XR - provides a combined 2D/3D Common Operating Picture > > - VR-Vantage Toolkit - a powerful application-level SDK built on top of OSG, > that includes built-in distributed rendering, game-like navigation > interface, a Qt-based GUI framework, DI-Guy Human Characters, SpeedTree > vegetation, GL-Studio HUDs and cockpit displays, SilverLining atmosphere and > volumetric clouds, streaming terrain through osgEarth, built-in DIS/HLA > networking, and a rich set of high-quality 3D visual models from companies > like Simthetiq and RealDB. > > > > For more information about VR-Vantage, please see www.vr-vantage.com. > > ====== > > _______________________________________________ > osg-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org > > _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
