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InstantReality at Siggraph 2012

August 2nd, 2012

Come meet the developer team at the exhibition floor of Siggraph 2012 in Los Angeles in booth #234! We brought some new Kinect goodies with us and will show a fusion of InstantReality as a service for out-of-core rendering with X3DOM. It’ll blow your mind! For those who can’t wait to see it, here is a 14.5 million triangle model paged to an iPad.

 

InstantReality 2.2.0 Released

August 2nd, 2012

Today we release version 2.2.0, which apart from bugfixes provides some new features: we’ve revamped our internal binary loader, providing support for more formats, multitouch support on Windows 7 and Mac OS X, a Microsoft Kinect backend, an all new release target for Ubuntu 12.04 and much more! Go check it out in the downloads section:

http://www.instantreality.org/downloads/

InstantPlayer Linux Versions?

April 23rd, 2012

We have currently a poll running concerning which Linux versions you prefer or require for Instant. So, don’t hesitate to participate:
http://forum.instantreality.org/index.php?topic=2595.0

Web3D 2012 – Deadline Extended

March 30th, 2012

The 17th ACM International Web3D Conference will address a wide range of research topics related to Web-based 3D graphics (like X3D/ X3DOM/ Dec3D). The Conference will be held in Los Angeles in conjunction with SIGGRAPH 2012 on August 4-5, 2012.

The full call for papers is at http://web3d2012.org/submission.html
Extended paper/poster submission deadline: April 16th, 2012

CeBIT 2012

March 1st, 2012

We have an official spot at the Software Cluster booth (Hall 26, booth F30) and demo the latest x3dom and instantreality features!
Come by to see some interesting demos, talk to the developers and chat about idea, design and implementation issues you have. Look out for the white multi-touch table!

Call for papers: Dec3D2012 and Web3D2012

February 1st, 2012

We are happy to announce two related scientific conferences, which are coming up soon and where members of the InstantReality and X3DOM team are directly involved as part of the organizing committee:
the Dec3D 2012 Workshop  in conjunction with WWW2012 in April located in Lyon, France, as well as the 17th International Web3D 2012 Conference that is co-located with ACM Siggraph 2012 and held in Los Angeles, USA.

Both conferences include a ‘call for papers’ for related scientific material:

Please consider contributing a paper, if you use or extend X3DOM and/or InstantReality in some kind of scientific project or work on related topics.

    

InstantReality 2.1.0 Released

November 2nd, 2011

Today, we release version 2.1.0, which mainly is a bugfix and stability release:

http://www.instantreality.org/downloads/

Notes for Linux users:
Currently the only officially supported distribution is Ubuntu 10.04 (old Ubuntu 9.10 is no longer supported). Debian is updated to version 6.0.
Furthermore, for distributions like RedHat / CentOS please refer to the daily builds section.

PhD Positions/ Scholarships at Technical University of Darmstadt/ Germany

October 10th, 2011

TU Darmstadt offers two scholarships in Visual Computing technologies. One position has a strong focus on declarative 3D in the web (esp. X3DOM and WebGL development) :

  • Declarative 3D in the Web – Efficient and flexible declaration and visualization of interactive 3D web content

The other one is more focused on the development of a software platform for Augmented and Mixed Reality applications:

  • Visual Computing Platforms – A “unified reality” platform for a direct coupling of image analysis and synthesis metaphors

More information can be found here: http://www.gris.tu-darmstadt.de/home/jobs/

These PhD positions at the TU Darmstadt will give the possibility to perform the PhD studies in close cooperation with Fraunhofer IGD, an internationally renowned research institute. The scholarships are initially limited to two years and can be complemented with an additional contract at Fraunhofer IGD in Darmstadt.

The Technical University of Darmstadt is an equal opportunity employer. Women are especially encouraged to apply. Handicapped applicants with comparable qualification will be given preferential treatment.

Siggraph 2011

August 4th, 2011

Following up Michael’s and Jens’  Kinect-Experiment: Freezing like Han Solo earlier this year, we ported their Processing version to our instantreality platform.

Come meet us at Siggraph, booth #814, Vancouver, and get freezed through our demo and learn about the power of insantreality, X3D and X3DOM which livens every single triangle and all your 3D content in your browser — plugin-free.

CeBit 2011

February 28th, 2011

We have an official spot at the Fraunhofer booth (Hall 9, booth B36) and demo the latest x3dom.org and instantreality.org feature! This includes multi-touch-events, native ios-brower with “declarative vision pipeline” in HTML and X3DOM running in Internet-Explorer utilizing the IR-plugin.

Come by to see some interesting demos, talk to the developers and chat about the idea, design and implementation issues you have. Look for the large L-shaped multi-touch table!