vr juggler
Virtual Reality Goes Open Source
The VR Juggler project was started in 1997 by Dr. Carolina Cruz-Neira and a team of students at Iowa State University's Virtual Reality Applications Center. This ongoing work has produced a freely available open source, community-oriented virtual reality application development framework. VR Juggler is released under the GNU LGPL and will always be available for anyone and everyone to use free of charge.
VR Juggler Gains Corporate Backing
In November 2003, Infiscape Corporation began offering commercial support and services for users of VR Juggler. Since then, Infiscape Corporation has assumed responsibility for maintaining, improving, and stabilizing VR Juggler to ensure its usability in production environments. Faculty and students at the Iowa State University Virtual Reality Applications Center perform research-oriented and long-term visionary work to keep VR Juggler on the cutting edge of virtual reality technology.
Project Milestones
| June 1996 | Design discussions begin |
| Janaury 1997 | Code writing begins |
| Mid-April 1998 | Name changed from VRlib to VR Juggler |
| July 1, 1998 | First successful test with multiple pipes and tracking |
| July 10, 1998 | First successful stereo viewing test |
| Semptember 15, 1998 | Alpha 1 released |
| October 6, 1998 | Alpha 2 released |
| October 26, 1998 | Alpha 3 released (source not tagged) |
| February 15, 1999 | Alpha 4 released |
| February 16, 1999 | Alpha 4.1 released |
| July 6, 1999 | Beta 1.0 released |
| October 8, 1999 | Version 0.1.1 (beta 1.1) released |
| ??? 1999 | First freeware release to educational institutions |
| January 27, 2000 | First open source (LGPL) release (version 0.1.95) |
| June 19-20, 2000 | VR Juggler powers C6 grand opening at IPT 2000 |
| October 2, 2000 | VR Juggler source code moved to SourceForge.net |
| December 13, 2000 | VR Juggler 1.0 stabilization begins; VR Juggler 1.1 development begins |
| April 13, 2001 | Version 1.0.0 released |
| August 21, 2001 | First VR Juggler Birds of a Feather meeting at SIGGRAPH 2001 |
| Mid-October 2001 | VR Juggler 1.1 separated into modules: VPR, JCCL, Gadgeteer, and VR Juggler |
| November 8, 2001 | Tweek is incorporated into the mix |
| February 17, 2002 | First version of ClusterJuggler merged into main CVS trunk |
| June 14, 2002 | First VR Juggler 1.1 developer release |
| July 9, 2002 | Second version of ClusterJuggler merged into main CVS trunk |
| July 16, 2002 | VRJConfig replaces VjControl in VR Juggler 1.1 development tree |
| November 19–21, 2002 | VR Juggler 1.1 clustering is demonstrated in an exhibit at Supercomputing 2002 |
| November 22, 2002 | Initial work on PyJuggler committed to the CVS repository |
| December 12, 2002 | Initial work on VRJ.NET (based on Managed C++) committed to the CVS repository |
| February 26, 2003 | Third version of ClusterJuggler merged into main CVS trunk |
| March 15, 2003 | First VR Juggler 2.0 alpha release |
| March 16, 2003 | First release of PyJuggler announced |
| July 2, 2003 | Release of PyJuggler 0.7.0, the first version with comprehensive class coverage |
| July 10, 2003 | Third version of configuration file format and configuration definition file format (featuring fully versioned components) merged into the main CVS trunk |
| January 14, 2004 | New version of VRJ.NET based on C# and its Platform Invocation Services imported to the CVS repository |
| December 24, 2004 | VR Juggler 2.0 Beta 1 and PyJuggler 1.0 Beta 1 released |
| July 5, 2005 | VR Juggler 2.0.0 released |
| July 7, 2005 | PyJuggler 1.0.0 released |
