Immersive Virtual Reality Links

Open Source Virtual Reality Software

Virtual reality toolkits

• VR Juggler - suite of APIs from Iowa State University that simplify object tracking, selection and navigation, and graphical user interfaces
• DIVERSE - Device Independent Virtual Environment - Reconfigurable, Scalable, Extensible
• VESS - Virtual Environment Software Sandbox used to create various VR research applications at University of Central Florida
• FreeVR - virtual reality interface/integration library
• CAVERNsoft G2 - toolkit for building high performance tele-immersive collaborative applications

3D graphics toolkits and engines

• VTK - Visualization ToolKit software system for 3D graphics, image processing, and visualization
• OpenSceneGraph - an open source, high performance 3D scenegraph toolkit
• OpenSG - portable scenegraph system to create realtime graphics programs
• OpenMASK - Modular Animation and Simulation Kit
• Panda3D - rendering engine with Python scripting interface and utility code (originally developed at Disney VR Studio)
• Chromium - system for interactive rendering on clusters of graphics workstations

Other applicable toolkits and software

• OpenAL - 3D audio API
• vtkActorToPF - translate any vtkActor to an OpenPerformer pfGeode, allowing for rendering to multi-headed displays
• vtk2CAVE - small library which allows you to use VTK in a CAVE environment

Applications that support immersive environments

• vrNav2- 3-D scene navigation program from UCLA
• VMD - Visual Molecular Dynamics for displaying, animating, and analyzing large biomolecular systems
• Cave5D - virtual reality version of Vis5D for the CAVE and ImmersaDesk
• 3DIVE - visualization tool for interactively displaying and manipulating volume data
• LIMBO - collaborative program that allows particpants to load and maintain 3-D models in a persistent virtual environment
• MetVR- allows scientists to view meteorological data sets in a virtual environment
• XMView/CMView- molecular visualization program, including small molecules, molecular surfaces, molecular symmetry, and macromolecules
• CQ3A - Quake3 renderer for the CAVE

Other Immersive Environment Sites

Universities in the US

• UCLA Visualization Portal
• University of Michigan 3D Lab
• Electronic Visualization Laboratory (University of Illinois at Chicago)
• Virtual Reality Applications Center (Iowa State University)
• Advanced Visualization Laboratory (Indiana University)
• The COVE Engineering Research Center (Mississippi State University)
• BP Center for Visualization (University of Colorado at Boulder)
• Envision Center for Data Perceptualization (Purdue University)
• VT-CAVE (Virginia Tech)
• Technology Center for Advanced Scientific Computing and Visualization (Brown University)

Universities outside the US

• Sun Center of Excellence for Visual Genomics (University of Calgary)
• Reading Visualization Centre (University of Reading)
• VR Media Lab (Aalborg University)