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Professional Solutions for Successful VR labs

Virtools offers a comprehensive interactive 3D development environment and deployment solutions tailored to meet your VR needs:

Robust authoring platform with intuitive graphical authoring approach

The visual scripting with the Virtools Schematic makes the developing environment accessible to a wide range of users (from ergonomists, psychologists, designers, artists to programmers).

All major technical features integrated

• Physics, particles, GPU shaders, 3D sound, LOD, Characters, video, ODBC and more
• Library of 500 ready-to-use behaviors, complete with source code
• Text-based scripting language (VSL) to complement the Virtools Schematic
• C/C++ graphics API with SDK and documented functions

Dedicated VR add-on Library

Open, flexible and comprehensive, the VR Library is designed for creating immersive applications while supporting many industry-standard VR peripherals (from haptic devices to tracking systems) and large scale displays (from Hmd to CAVEs). Based on solid R&D for PC-based VR, it is the most established commercial VR solution running on PC clusters.

Universal Deployment Possibilities

Deploy your VR application set of assets on any hardware without authoring new content. Code once; deploy everywhere, from web pages to CAVEs.

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Anyone looking for a solution to develop work in the areas of VR, simulation, or gaming without the overhead of intensive programming and development, should spend some time with a demo version of Virtools. If you want a way to have students begin working with ideas and content at the same time that they begin to understand programming logic, it is a great way to go.

Alan Price - Former Associate Professor
Imaging Research Center
UMBC Visual Arts

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References

Rehabilitation/Psychological Treatment, the Intrepid Project

• Monitor patient health by pluging adapted devices
• Immersive life-like experiences for more realism

Intrepid Project is aimed at developing a multi-sensor wearable system for the treatment of phobias and situational anxiety.

VR and Simulator Science, the Case of the Max Planck Institute

• Build innovative multi-modal experiences
• Immersive VR hardware management capabilities

The Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics’s research focuses on the perception of space, movement and speed.

Industrial Applied-Science, the Hong Kong University CAVE

• Develop innovative behavioral mock-ups and training simulators
• Create high performance applications for VR-based training

Built on a generic CAVE designed by the University of Hong Kong, the Crane Simulator teaches users how to operate cranes for transporting industrial containers in ports or warehouse settings.

Media Art and Edutainment, the Syrinx Project

• Unlimited interactivity for your applications
• Concentrate on creativity while benefiting from a powerful technology

Syrinx Project is an experimental 3D VR installation made by the Visual Arts Imaging Research Center of UMBC that lets users control the growth of a variety of plant-like forms.

More than 400 Universities and Research Laboratories currently using Virtools solutions in their educational programs: