Vizard Virtual Reality Toolkits
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Vizard Virtual Reality Toolkits
Features
Vizard Features Avatars
• Built-in human avatars allow you to almost instantly insert virtual humans into your simulations
Stereoscopic displays • Novice users can readily connect to a multitude of 3D
stereoscopic devices.
CAVE, Powerwall, & projection systems• Vizard provides sophisticated tools for configured and rendering
to single and multi-screen projection systems
Integrated Editor & Inspector Python Scripting
• Python 2.7 is a remarkably powerful dynamic programming language used in a wide variety of applications
Features
Shaders• Vizard provides several built-in shader workflows and enables
advanced users to insert their own GLSL shader code directly into the simulations to create unlimited visual effects
Mobile device controls • Control and interact with your real-time simulations with your
iOS or Android tablet or phone using Vizard's built-in web server module.
Physics• The physics engine gives node objects the ability to collide with
other node objects and react to forces as if they were rigid material bodies.
• Collision meshes, Forces, Joints, Motors
System Requirements
System Requirements Hardware
• Pentium 4 or greater
• 1 GB RAM minimum
• 500 MB free hard disk space
• OpenGL GPU display adapter
Operating System• Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP
Supported VR Hardware Vizard supports nearly all standard virtual reality hardware
devices, including motion trackers, haptic interfaces, data gloves, head-mounted displays, 3D projection systems, CAVEs, clusters, and many other peripherals.
Head & Hand motion trackers• AR TRACKING: ARTrack1, DTrack
Vizard Tutorial
Vizard Tutorial Introductions : Getting your feet wet Python programming tutorials
• Python Programming 101 , Python Programming 201
3D models• Hierarchical models and coordinate systems
• Text nodes, Creating 3D models on-the-fly
Flow control• Tutorial: Action objects , Tutorial: Tasks
Avatars• Tutorial: Animating bones, Attaching a new head
• Animating avatars
Vizard Tutorial
Appearance and texturing• Applying Textures, Multi-texturing
• Environmental mapping, 360 panoramas
Physics engine• Physics, Tutorial: Forces & material properties
• Tutorial: Callbacks & complex shapes
Proximity sensors• Tutorial: Proximity Sensors
Multimedia• Multimedia , 3D Sound
Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs)• Graphical user interfaces (GUIs)
Viewpoints & windows• Tutorial: Windows & views , Tutorial: Viewpoint collision
• Tutorial: Viewpoint control
Vizard Tutorial
Picking objects off the screen• Picking objects
Networking• Network communication
Hardware• Head tracking equipment
• 5DT data gloves
• Real-time tracking data
Recording data files• Creating data files
Vizard Tutorial Course
Getting Your Feet Wet An overview of the basic steps necessary for building
interactive virtual worlds of your own. Creating a new Script Setting the Scene Moving the Viewpoint Manipulating 3D Models Animating 3D Models Timer Events Adding Avatars Inserting User Interaction
Vizard & Kinect
Using the Microsoft Kinect with ICT’s FAAST and Vizard