Welcome to inVRs!

To improve the development process of Virtual Environments (VEs) and Networked Virtual Environments (NVEs) the inVRs (interactive networked Virtual Reality system) framework provides a clearly structured approach for the design of highly interactive and responsive NVEs. It consists of three independent modules, one for interaction, one for navigation, and one for network communication, two interface layers to support a variety of output and input devices, and a system core which stores and manages the state of the VE. It is developed following Open Source principles (LGPL) and can be used freely. It runs on Windows, Linux, Mac, and IRIX.

News and Events

26.12.09 - inVRs half-day tutorial at IEEE VR 2010 Waltham, MA, USA

  • The Developing VR Applications With The inVRs Framework - Tutorial will be presented im March 2010 at the IEEE VR 2010 Conference
  • Course material will be online beforehand here.

19.12.09 - New Tool for inVRs and OpenSG available

The 3D Menu system for using basic 3D Menus in arbitrary OpenSG and inVRs applications is available (see 3D Menus section)

29.10.09- More documentation available.

Christoph Anthes PhD Thesis A Collaborative Interaction Framework for Networked Virtual Environments describing the concepts behind the inVRs framework can be found in the Documentation section.

07.09.09 - New inVRs version 1.0alpha5 released (see Installation section):

  • Minor bug fixes and API cleanup
  • New tutorial for the support of VR installations (see GoingImmersive section)

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  • Overview - Get an overview on the architecture and the basic concepts of the inVRs framework.
  • Installation and Tools - Download and install the inVRs framework. Additional tools and modules which enhance the standard inVRs functionality are available here as well. Links to the external libraries used and other useful resources for VR application development can be found here.
  • Documentation - This section provides a preliminary set of documentation material consisting of tutorials, manuals, code examples ...
  • Developers and Mailing Lists - Contact details for the main developers of the inVRs framework. Additional mailing lists are available to get updates, discuss code, participate, ...