From: cdshaw@cs.ualberta.ca (Chris Shaw) Subject: TECH: Free Virtual Reality Software: The MR Toolkit Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 12:43:34 +0100 Organization: University of Alberta A N N O U N C I N G The MR Toolkit Version 1.1 The MR Toolkit is a subroutine library that supports the development of Virtual Reality user interfaces and other forms of three dimensional user interfaces. The MR Toolkit provides support for various devices, such as the Polhemus Isotrak digitizer, VPL DataGlove, VPL EyePhone and sound synthesis equipment, that are commonly used in VR systems. 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 and FORTRAN programs on SGI and DEC workstations. Some elements of the MR Toolkit will also run on other UNIX platforms. The toolkit is available at no cost to licenced academic and research institutions. To get version 1.1 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 employee of 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 Dani Beaubien at dani@cs.UAlberta.ca, and he will 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. NOTE: If you have the MR Toolkit already, you will soon receive a mail message indicating how & where to get the new version. -- Chris Shaw University of Alberta cdshaw@cs.UAlberta.ca CatchPhrase: Bogus as HELL !