From: peter@divelabs Subject: ANNOUNCE: AmberGL VR Development System Release and Demonstration Date: November 8, 1995 Organization: DIVE Labs From: peter@divelabs DIVE LABORATORIES, INC. 2501 Mission Street Santa Cruz CA 95060 408-469-1720 408-469-1722 FAX e-mail: info@divelabs.com Web Site: http://www.divelabs.com ***DIVE Labs Demonstrates Distributed Virtual Reality Tool Kit*** Shareware VRML Client and Virtual Environment Development System Support Immersive VR over the Internet For Immediate Release Friday August 18, 1995 Contact: Peter Rothman DIVE Laboratories, Inc. 408-469-1720 Santa Cruz, California -- DIVE Labs announced today that it will demonstrate its AmberGL virtual reality development system at the upcoming meeting of the Virtual Reality Education Foundation (also known as VeRGe) and distribute a shareware version of the software form its World Wide Web site. DIVE Labs' AmberGL software, a virtual environment development system for OpenGL platforms, was originally developed for use high end military simulations. AmberGL is a fully featured virtual environment development system which currently supports OpenGL under Windows NT, and IRIX, as well as a real-time server implementation. The software also supports head tracking head mounted displays, spatial audio, advanced graphics accelerators, reads both VRML and NFF object files, and allows for the development of distributed virtual environments using a client server architecture over TCP/IP networks. Future versions of Amber will support the the recently announced Creative Labs 3DBlaster and run under DOS, Windows 3.1, and Windows95. According to Peter Rothman, President of DIVE Laboratories, "AmberGL represents the culmination of our work for the past three years on a variety of projects for the military brought down to a consumer level. The beta version of the AmberGL will be made available as shareware free of charge from DIVE Labs World Wide Web site (http://www.divelabs.com) starting September 1st. A commercial version of the product will be available directly from DIVE Labs and from select retailers for $149. Unlike other existing virtual reality tool kits, AmberGL is a true object oriented environment which supports inheritance and other object oriented programming. Using Virtual I/O's i-glasses and DIVE Labs server software developers can create immersive on-line environments for entertainment, conferencing, or other business applications. AmberGL environments support communication between participants and complex interactions with virtual objects via a protocol originally developed for military simulation. This protocol, known as the Virtual Environment Transfer Protocol or VETP, is derived from the well known DIS protocol used in networked military simulators and is employed in DIVE Labs high end infantry training systems. AmberGL will be demonstrated on September 30th at 7:30 PM at the meeting of the San Francisco based Virtual Reality Education Foundation (known as VeRGe) which has been called the Homebrew Computing Club of the nineties. During the demonstration, a VRML Browser will be constructed "live on stage" to demonstrate the ease of use of AmberGL. Additionally, a multi-person virtual environment will be demonstrated in which the participants enter a shared environment through a World Wide Web gateway. The meeting will be held at the McBean Theater located in the Exploratorium at the San Francisco Palace of Fine Arts. ### ### ### [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.]