The framework provides a comprehensive set of features to support classic Virtual Reality (VR) and advanced Augmented Reality (AR) equally well. The goal was to provide a very simple application interface while still including the latest research results in the fields of high-realistic rendering, 3D user interaction and total-immersive display technology. The system design includes various industry standards, like VRML and X3D, to easy the application development and deployment.
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InstantExport Nightly Beta Builds available
| 2010-03-09From today on InstantExport Nightly Beta Builds are available. InstantExport is our exporter for 3D Studio Max. It exports classic encoding (VRML) and XML (X3D). InstantExport is available for Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7 32 and 64 Bit. Download: ftp://ftp.igd.fraunhofer.de/outgoing/irbuild/InstantExport/ Please report bugs and suggestions in the InstantExport forum: http://forum.instantreality.org/index.php?board=19.0
The Beta7 release is online
| 2010-02-01The new release features new nodetypes like spline interpolators (e.g. SplineScalarInterpolator) and BrowserTexture. Furthermore device support was added for: NextWindow multi touch screens, the Novint Falcon Force Feedback device and the Fifth Dimension Data Glove (all Windows only). For details please have a look at the changelog.
New brother project born: x3dom.org
| 2009-11-25A part of the InstantReality's developer team launched a brother project based on WebGL: x3dom.org It proposes a way to integrate X3D direct into Websites via WebGL. This enables a HTML5 conform presentation of 3D content on the web without plug-ins. The open source project was announced at W3C TPAC and already works in Nighty Builds of Firefox, Webkit and Chrome.
IEEE VR tutorials material is online
| 2009-03-12This includes the updated Material for beta6 and additional basic example for the hands-on session. Link: http://conferences.computer.org/vr/2009/IE3_tutorialMaterials.html
The IEEE VR/Beta6 release is online!
| 2009-03-09The new version extents the setup mechanism for clustering and brings support for CgFX in PackedShader, 53 Tutorials in total and a new Script-API documentation section. For details please have a look at the changelog.