inVRs - The interactive networked Virtual Reality system 
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What is inVRs ?
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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, and IRIX.  


FIXME: This is just a quick makeup for a README file.

Compiling and installation:
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For details about the installation process please read the installation 
instructions provided at:

http://www.inVRs.org

Compiling and installation via command line:
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1) Make sure your system satisfies the following dependencies:
  
  - OpenSG (Version 1.8)[1]
  - CMake (Version 2.4 or above)[2]

2) (OPTIONAL) Define the URLs to the installed packages in the user.cmake file.
   For example on Linux systems the path where the osg-config binary
   can be found has to be defined in the line:
     set (OPENSG_BIN_DIR /usr/local/bin)
   If nothing is specified CMake will try to find the paths by itself

3) Change into the build directory
  
  # cd build

4) Generate the build system via cmake, e.g.:

  # cmake ../

5) Build and install inVRs. For Linux e.g.:

  # make
  # make install

Footnotes:
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[1] http://www.opensg.org/
[2] http://www.cmake.org/

Acknowlegdments:
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inVRs has been developed at the Institute of Graphics and Parallel Processing of
the Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria.
The architecture and the main developement of the initial version has been 
carried out by Christoph Anthes, Roland Landertshamer and Helmut Bressler 
between 2005 and 2009. Many other contributions from student projects have been
integrated. 
To finally release the source of the framework the code contributions have been 
cleaned up and reformatted by Philipp Aumayr, Clemens Birklbauer, Roland Hackl, 
Marlene Hochrieser, Roland Hopferwieser, Roland Landertshamer, Marina Lenger and 
Johannes Zarl. Thanks for all your work !!!