From: Pierre duPont Subject: re: TECH: Recommendations for VR software Date: July 30, 1996 Message-ID: <01BB7A78.5FAF2A80@dialin-ppp.division.co.uk> >Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 16:36:05 -0700 >Subject: TECH: Recommendations for VR software >Our lab is in the process of researching software for creating virtual >environments....I'm interested in what kinds of software you might >recommend for us....Is it typical for this sort of software to assume >that the geometry of the world has been pre-defined in some other >application? ------- Dave - you may know of Division, and our dVISE VR software which is in use at the University of Washington. We have recently launched a Windows NT version of dVISE which costs US$2,000 and is identical to the SGI & HP versions we have been developing & selling for many years. dVISE does not require programming in C - although you can do so if you wish. Unless you have some compelling and unique requirement for a feature which dVISE does not include, then I would suggest that programming is unnecessary, and would in that case be a waste of your project development time: e.g., all that 'reinventing-the-wheel' stuff. dVISE does expect that you will have the geometry defined elsewhere (since there are other companies who are *very* good at that, so why not use the result of their development efforts?); we have a very broad and very powerful set of tools for converting and optimizing geometry, and the geometry can come from any major CAD package. Check out http://www.division.com for more information, or send me a further description of what you want to do. - Pierre duPont - Division - realvr@division.com [MODERATOR'S NOTE: Commercial postings are offered on this newsgroup as a public service. Their appearance here does not indicate endorsement by the moderators or by the USENET or its administrators.]