InterSense head tracking breakdown

Drawing this picture to illustrate the orientation axis in the cave environment was not easy. I was forced to use Gimp portable, which in itself is not a bad thing. However, it has been many years since I used Gimp and what seemed to be a trivial task ended up taking a bit over an hour.

Identifying enhancements

When you’ve completed a troublesome task, it’s often hard to identify new goals and challenges. Because of this, I took the liberty of listing new project tasks.

At last: progress on dt-cluster

After a long-ish break for exams and then christmas and then new year’s, it was finally time to get working on the dt-cluster project once again.

Delta3D and Head Tracking

In the project I am working on, it is essential to incorporate head tracking into the Virtual Reality project. Today, I discovered that Delta3D has built-in support for InterSense’s Head Tracking system.

Unreal Engine 3 (UDK) is now free

Slashdot posted an article that the Unreal Engine 3 is now free to use. Could this be interesting for our project?

Trying out Delta3D’s clustering

In order to evaluate Delta3D’s clustering capabilities, I had to get a simple clustering application up and running.

Game engine or 3D rendering engine

In my list of possible candidates, I have included both full-fledged game engines aswell as 3D rendering engines. In this article, I will outline the differences and decide which of the two that suits this project the best.

Ogre3D

Ogre3D is an open source scene graph which prides itself as being in the forefront when it comes to new trends and features.

CaveUT

CaveUT is a project aimed at bringing Unreal Tournament 2004 into a CAVE-like environment.

ioquak3

ioquake3 is built upon id Software’s tech 3 game engine. It is an open source project that aims to clean up the code, fix bugs and to add new features.