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.
Quite detailed tutorial!
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.
Indeed VRPN lacks a good documentation for starters, hope this will help !