From: David Waller <dwaller@u.washington.edu>
Subject: TECH: Recommendations for VR software
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 16:09:33 -0700
Organization: University of Washington



Our lab is in the process of researching software for creating virtual
environments.  We'll be modeling fairly simple environments and are
working under a pretty limiting budget (we have ca. $2000 to spend).
We expect that the people using the software and creating the
environments will be relatively naive about VR, but that they will
have a general background which includes programming in C.

I'm interested in what kinds of software you might recommend for us.
In particular, I need to know if most of the available packages for us
(such as World Took Kit or Vream) come as complete packages.  Is it
typical for this sort of software to assume that the geometry of the
world has been pre-defined in some other application, or will these
packages allow us to build the geometry of a world from scratch?

Thanks in advance for any information or advice you can provide.  

Regards,
Dave
dwaller@u.washington.edu