We’re excited to bring you the latest release of InstantReality: version 2.4.0. This release features Ubuntu 14 as a new platform, retiring Ubuntu 10. The primary lineup of builds is also now concentrated on 64bit architectures exclusively, but you can always find additional releases in the Dailybuild section. InstantReality 2.4.0 comes with several important bug fixes, new loaders for formats such as PLMXML, improvements for our converter tool aopt, as well as new nodes which we will present at Web3D 2014 in Vancouver.
You can start righ now:
http://www.instantreality.org/downloads/
I was really hoping that this new release would improve the viewing controls of the player; but no, they are just as before.
The most critical need is a simple way to place the rotation center in relation to visible objects, so that one can easily spin things around a chosen point. The present alt-click and alt-doubleclick methods produce arbitrary and baffling results and are next to useless.
— Tom