inVRs - The interactive networked Virtual Reality system ======================================================== What is inVRs ? --------------- To improve the development process of Virtual Environments (VEs) and Networked Virtual Environments (NVEs) the inVRs (interactive networked Virtual Reality system) framework provides a clearly structured approach for the design of highly interactive and responsive NVEs. It consists of three independent modules, one for interaction, one for navigation, and one for network communication, two interface layers to support a variety of output and input devices, and a system core which stores and manages the state of the VE. It is developed following Open Source principles (LGPL) and can be used freely. It runs on Windows, Linux, and Mac. FIXME: This is just a quick makeup for a README file. Compiling and installation: --------------------------- For details about the installation process please read the installation instructions provided at: http://www.inVRs.org Compiling and installation via command line: -------------------------------------------- 1) Make sure your system satisfies the following dependencies: - OpenSG (Version 1.8)[1] - CMake (Version 2.8.3 or above)[2] 2) (OPTIONAL) Define the URLs to the installed packages in the user.cmake file. For example on Linux systems the path where the osg-config binary can be found has to be defined in the line: set (OPENSG_BIN_DIR /usr/local/bin) If nothing is specified CMake will try to find the paths by itself 3) Change into the build directory # cd build 4) Generate the build system via cmake, e.g.: # cmake ../ 5) Build and install inVRs. For Linux e.g.: # make # make install Footnotes: ---------- [1] http://www.opensg.org/ [2] http://www.cmake.org/ Acknowlegdments: ---------------- inVRs has been developed at the Institute of Graphics and Parallel Processing of the Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria. The architecture and the main developement of the initial version has been carried out by Christoph Anthes, Roland Landertshamer and Helmut Bressler between 2005 and 2009. Many other contributions from student projects have been integrated. To finally release the source of the framework the code contributions have been cleaned up and reformatted by Philipp Aumayr, Clemens Birklbauer, Roland Hackl, Marlene Hochrieser, Roland Hopferwieser, Roland Landertshamer, Marina Lenger and Johannes Zarl. Thanks for all your work !!!