Vizard VR Software Toolkit

Integrated Editor & Inspector

Vizard sports one of the Python community’s richest integrated development environments. Try it and experience Python programming at its best with our built in intelligent code completion (based on in-depth background static code analysis), visual debugging (with breakpoints, variables watches and value change), embedded and interactive simulation engine. In addition, Vizard offers one of the industry’s most useful 3D asset inspector that is the fastest way to view 3D models, examine their graph structure, identify inefficient polygon and texture usage, and preview built-in animations.

Python Scripting

Python 2.7 is a remarkably powerful dynamic programming language used in a wide variety of applications. Don’t be misled that scripting means slow. To the contrary, the ease and flexibility of Python gets your projects delivered faster, and where it counts Vizard’s core engine is built in C++.

Advanced Avatar Features

Meet our avatars and you’ll immediately realize how they’re in a class of their own. Our avatars feature unbeatable quality—both in terms of visual appearance and animation detail that include facial expressions and eye movements. Our avatars offer this richness without sacrifice—the assets have been incredibly well design for efficient rendering and use of texture memory. And if you need avatars dressed in something other than civilian attire, you can also find military, medical, worker, and other uniformed avatars. Or see our selection of more than 20 types of animals.

Head/Hand Tracking

In virtual reality, display and tracking go together like peas and carrots. Tracking brings your display to life by letting it react to your natural body motions. With your head and hands, your move and interact as you do with real objects and as a result the virtual stimulation fools your senses and you are wrapped in a convincing sensation of telepresence.

Full Body Motion Capture

Unlike head and hand tracking full body motion capture technology delivers full human presence for both first person point of view and third person points of view experiences. With Vizard and motion capture, you can integrate live full feature avatars and move and interact with one another or interact with complex objects in your virtual environment.

Publish as EXE

Standard with our Development and Enterprise editions is the ability to “publish” your projects to a royalty-free, distributable EXE file. You can use this technique to share your work with others with ease because there are no players or add-ons your receiving party needs to install before simply launching your project.

• Royalty-free redistribution*.
• No player required
• Encrypted asset protection is available to Enterprise license holders

* Commercial redistribution requires a valid Silver Support contract.

3ds MAX

Vizard supports numerous 3D formats and includes a powerful exporter plug-in to Autodesk 3ds MAX. The advantages of the 3ds MAX workflow are the following:

• 3ds MAX export plug-in for managing and exporting large scenes
• fast, compressed binary format for efficient GPU memory management
• In addition to Vizard’s native text and binary formats, Vizard is particularly strong at importing .wrl, .3ds, .obj, and .dae file formats.

Shaders

Vizard provides several built-in shader workflows and enables advanced users to insert their own GLSL shader code directly into the simulations to create unlimited visual effects. Using shaders for rendering real-time graphics has many benefits. Most notably, it moves graphics related operations from the CPU to the GPU. This allows programmers to use the graphics hardware directly to render a wider range of effects and realistic materials.

With Vizard’s shader support, it is straightforward to implement GLSL shaders to render effects such as bump, specular, parallax, and detail map effects, in addition to real-time ambient occlusion effects (e.g., SSOA).

MULTISCREEN PROJECTION

• CHRISTIE DISPLAYS
• MECHDYNE CAVE / POWERWALL
• INGEVIDEO
• SCALABLE DISPLAYS
• VIZBOX
• HOLOVIS
• VIRTALIS

AUTOSTEREO SCREENS

• TRIDELITY
• ALIOSCOPY
• PHILIPS WOW
• SEE REAL

ACTIVE SHUTTER GLASSES

• CRYSTALEYES
• STEREOGRAPHICS
• REALD

CYBERGLOVE SYSTEMS

• CYBERGLOVE
• CYBERTOUCH
• CYBERGRASP

SENSABLE

• PHANTOM DESKTOP
• PHANTOM OMNI
• OPEN HAPTICS V2 AND V3

5DT

• DATAGLOVE5, 5-W
• DATAGLOVE16, 16-W
• DATAGLOVE5 MRI

IMMERSION

• CYBERGLOVE
• CYBERTOUCH

Full Body Motion Capture

• MOTION BUILDER CONNECTIVITY
• MOTION ANALYSIS
• PHASESPACE
• VICON
• XSENS MT / XSENS MOVEN
• QUALISYS

Augmented Reality

• AR TOOLWORKS
• TRIVISIO
• WORLDVIZ VIDEOVISION