From: cdshaw@cs.ualberta.ca (Chris Shaw) Subject: TECH: The MR Toolkit Version 1.2 is now available Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1993 19:30:13 -0700 Organization: University of Alberta A N N O U N C I N G The MR Toolkit Version 1.2 The MR Toolkit is a subroutine library that supports the development of Virtual Reality programs and other forms of three dimensional user interfaces. The MR is currently licenced by more than 90 sites worldwide, with users on every continent except Antarctica. The MR Toolkit provides support for common VR devices, such as: The Polhemus Isotrak, Shooting Star ADL-1, and Ascension Bird digitizers, the VPL DataGlove, the VPL EyePhone, and Virtual Research Flight Helmet, sound synthesis equipment. The MR Toolkit also supports the distribution of the user interface over multiple workstations, data distributed over several workstations, numerous interaction techniques, physical and virtual geometry management, and real-time performance analysis tools. The current version of the MR Toolkit is callable from C, C++ and FORTRAN programs on SGI, DEC, and IBM workstations. Some elements of the MR Toolkit will also run on Suns and other UNIX platforms. New features now available in this release are: New MOTIF hand calibration program for DataGlove The Panel Package - User can use glove to interact with buttons, menus, sliders & text on a 2D rectangle placed in 3D space. The Peer package - allows intelligent multi-person VR interaction. Comes with a Multi-Player HANDBALL game that allows you to play virtual handball with other people on the Internet! OML - the Object Modeling Language - A platform-independent graphical programming language which allows intelligent event management. Comes with nifty demos, including a 3D dungeon game. The toolkit is available at no cost to licenced academic and research institutions. To get version 1.2 of the MR toolkit, you must sign the licence form and mail it back to the University of Alberta. The person signing it should be a full-time "responsible person" at your organization, with a title such as Professor, Director, Manager, etc. If you are interested in the MR Toolkit, you can either ftp the PostScript copy of the licence from menaik.cs.ualberta.ca ... Address: 129.128.4.241 cd pub/graphics and get the file "licence.ps" Or, you can email cdshaw@cs.UAlberta.ca, and I'll email you the PostScript licence form. Mail the signed licence form to: Professor Mark Green Department of Computing Science 615 General Services Building University of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta Canada T6G 2H1 The MR Toolkit is distributed by blind FTP, so please include your email address in the licence form so we can tell you how to get the MR Toolkit. Special Added Bonus We are rapidly nearing 100 site licences for The MR Toolkit! To acknowledge this VR milestone, the 100'th licensee will receive a special commemorative prize -- The Golden Gouraud-Shaded Polygon Engraved with the name of the lucky 100'th licensee. Don't miss out! Get your licence form today! -- Chris Shaw University of Alberta cdshaw@cs.UAlberta.ca CatchPhrase: Bogus as HELL !