From: King Under The Hill Subject: DESIGN: Linux and VR Development Date: Mon, 05 Feb 1996 11:26:16 -0700 Message-ID: <31164BC8.24CD885E@rtt.colorado.edu> Organization: University of Colorado Hello VR people. I post this message in hopes that I can hook up with others who are using linux as a VR development platform for the PC. Linux is a far more powerful 32bit OS for the PC than DOS or WINDOZE. For those of you who have not heard of it, it is a public domain Unix OS for the PC and it aims at POSIX compliance. There are two things in particular I am interested in hooking up w/ others about. 1) Anyone who is working with the Polhemus Isotrack 16bit SEB in linux. 2) Anyone who is working with the 5DT 5thGlove95 in linux. My research group here at the University of Colorado at Boulder is working on software that allows multiple users across a network to share a virtual world and the objects within it, to interactively and cooperatively change the state of the objects, and to represent these changes to the participants at each client logged into the world in a timely manner. Most of the work is done in IRIX and HPUX, but so far I have been able to port everything to Linux as well using Mesa(OpenGL). My task for the coming months is to develop the software to talk to the glove and tracker described above. It would be great if there are any other linux/VR developers out there who want to begin a dialog, and would be really great if there are any linux/VR developers working with the 5DT 5thGlove95 or the Polhemus Isotrack that would be kind enough to contact me. Thank you, and happy head tracking! -Joe Antell --------------------------------------------------------------------- Multimedia and Virtual Reality R&D http://ucsu.colorado.edu/~antell/Home.html University of Colorado Colorado Space Grant College Campus BOX 520 Boulder, CO 80309-0520 Phone: 303.417.9782 FAX: 303.492.5456 _____________________________________________________________________