From: John Kelso (kelso++at++vt.edu)
Date: 07/21/2000 07:56:14
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(Please forgive what might turn out to be a duplicate posting- my first
attempt on Thursday seems to have gone to the bit-bucket.)
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The DIVERSE team at Virginia Tech is pleased to announce the first beta
release of DIVERSE, an open-source (GNU LGPL) software API, available for
download free of charge.
DIVERSE is a tortured acronym which stands for Device Independent Virtual
Environments- Reconfigurable, Scalable, Extensible.
DIVERSE is comprised of two components. The DIVERSE graphics interface for
Performer (dgiPf) provides a framework to implement 3D Virtual Environment
(VE) applications. The DIVERSE ToolKit (DTK), a separate standalone
package, is used by dgiPf to provide access to local and networked VE
interaction devices.
DIVERSE is designed without the "center of the universe" paradigm; you only
use the parts of DIVERSE that you need, without being forced into using a
particular design for your code, or having to add unneeded features.
DIVERSE provides:
- a common user interface to interactive graphics and/or VE programs.
Using DIVERSE, the same program can be run on everything from a CAVE(tm)
to a desktop workstation without modification.
- a common API to VE oriented hardware such as trackers, wands, joysticks
and stereo glasses.
- a "remote shared memory" facility that allows data from hardware or
computations to be asynchronously shared between both local and remote
processes.
For more information, including currently supported hardware platforms and
devices, please visit our web site at www.diverse.vt.edu, or send email to
diverse++at++vt.edu. We welcome your comments and suggestions.
Thanks,
The DIVERSE team at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA
Lance Arsenault
Fernando Das Neves
John Kelso
Ron Kriz
Chris Logie
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