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    • Mon 5 Jul 2010

    VRPN tutorial

    Published at 10:07   Category VR Devices  

    As part of the endeavour of the VR Geeks to democratize VR, I wrote a VRPN tutorial.

    VRPN (Virtual Reality Peripheral Network) is a free, open source, tool that handles many VR devices.

    VRPN acts as a device server. You configure VRPN to use your devices, then your program can easily connect to the server to get the device data in a standardized way.
    VRPN is used by a lot of VR applications: commercial ones like Virtools, WorldViz, but also free applications like OpenSceneGraph, or Panda3D.
    VRPN is cross-platform and runs on many different OS inclunding Windows, Linux, MacOS …

    We recommend the usage of VRPN if you want your application to be compatible with the VR Kits.

    3 Comments »

    1. Quite detailed tutorial!

      Comment by Maxim Lysak — Tuesday, 6 July 2010 @ 12:45

    2. Thanks for this nice tutorial! I wish you had published this a few weeks ealier ;-) I had a rather bumpy ride getting VRPN up a few weeks ago, the config file can be quite irritating if you are new to VRPN.

      Comment by Christoph — Tuesday, 6 July 2010 @ 15:20

    3. Indeed VRPN lacks a good documentation for starters, hope this will help !

      Comment by cb — Tuesday, 6 July 2010 @ 15:38

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