BSContact Stereo - VR - Release Notes

Overview

• 9.000 -- 30.10.2017
  • VR via Oculus Rift
  • VR Support Nodes
  • VrSystem - generic events and options for a head tracked VR device
  • VrController - Events generated by tracked VR hand controllers
  • OculusTouch - Events generated by the Oculus Touch controller that are not covered by VrController
  • OculusRemote- Events generated by the Oculus Remote
  • XBoxController - Events generated by the Oculus XBox controller
  • Built-in navigation via Oculus Touch and Remote. VR Applications can override this.
  • Built-in VR menu. VR Applications can replace it.
  • VR Media Nodes
  • 360° Video support
  • Panorama node - defines cylindrical, spherical projection surfaces apotheke-zag.de
  • LAV Direct Show Filter support
  • BSContact Open VR Media menu command
  • BSContact Open Stereo image supports EXIF Metadata and thumbnail stored to Metadata nodes

  Examples:
  http://sdk.bitmanagement.de/sdk_data/demos/Panorama/pano-cerro-toco.wrl with thumbtexture stored as base64 BSURL
  http://sdk.bitmanagement.de/sdk_data/demos/Panorama/pano-cerro-toco-with-metadata.x3dv with stored metadata

  • Mouse cursor in stereo modes
  In stereo modes the mouse cursor is rendered by BS Contact Stereo as part of the 3D scene and thus displays well in these modes. It also has a reasonable 3D depth because of this.
  • Scripting extensions
  • Browser.setOption("vr.active","true") enable/disable VR mode
  • Browser.setOption("vr.gazeinput.enabled","true") enable/disable gaze input, select TouchSensor by looking
  • Browser.setOption("vr.headlight.useDirectionalLight,"true") PointLight used by default in VR mode
  • Browser.setOption("cursor,"native") use Windows native cursor
  • Browser.setOption("cursor,"3d")use 3D cursor
  • JSON parsing -Browser.parseJSONFromString(jsonString)
    
    exposedField SFString jsonString "{ \"test\" : null , \"test2\" : [ 1000, 2000] , \"test3\" : { \"property\" : \"value33\" } }"
    url "javascript:
    function initialize()
    {
    var r= Browser.parseJSONFromString(jsonString);
    var test2 = r.test2;

    print('test2='+test2);
    print('test2[1]='+test2[1]);
    print('test2.length='+test2.length);
    }
    "
    

    
    http://sdk.bitmanagement.de/sdk_data/demos/json/jsontest.wrl simple test, see console
  • SFData field type for storing JSON objects
  • COM Interface - Nodes are supporting Node2 interface for functions getBBox setTransform
  • COM Interface - saveWorld2can write EXTERNPROTO scenes of a scene i.e. using :
    ret = ContactOCX.saveWorld2(filename, NULL, _T("writeExternProtoScenes=true,writeProtos=true,staticExport=false"));
    some more export options available
  • MovieTexture imagestream: protocol - supports HTTP motion jpeg - x-mixed-replace video(IP-Cams etc) .e.g
    url "imagestream:http://212.114.166.70/mjpg/video.mjpg"

  • CompositeTexture3D allows saving of created textures:
    
CompositeTexture3D {
parameter [
"format=RGBA" "depth=D24X8"
"save=c:/tmp_jpg/" ## save to directory
]
}

    DirextX9:png dds and jpg supported if string occurs in save
    OpenGL: only jpg supported
  • Text node - vertical alignment fixed, may need to check existing content.
  • Texture nodes - parameter ["sRGB"] specifies that image data is in sRGB gammut space (DX9 only)
  • New stereo rendering modes - Dimenco 9 View, Tiled 3*3 for multiview stereo. In stereo modes the windows cursor is emulated in 3D.
    We have good results using Bandicam to record multiview rendering.
  • Browser.setOption functions for NVidia Stereo API:
    stereo:NVStereo BOOL stereo activate/deactivate
    stereo:NVSeparation separations as factor 0..1
    stereo:NVConvergence convergence distance m

    getOption: additionally above values +
    stereo:NVStereoSupported BOO - NVAPI driver found and stereo handle created

  • .BSURL Shortcut file, like a Windows .LNK file, provides a link to an remote VRML/X3D url. The server side http mimetype should be configured to application/x-bsurl
    Example of a .bsurl file
    
[InternetShortcut]
URL=http://www.x-3-x.net/vrml/archive/2ndworld/commserv/community/places/grdpalais/vrml/grdpalais.wrl


  .BSURL Shortcut file, like a Windows .LNK file, provide a link to an remote VRML/X3D url. The server side mimetype should be configured to application/x-bsurl
  Example of a .bsurl file
  
[InternetShortcut]
URL=http://www.x-3-x.net/vrml/archive/2ndworld/commserv/community/places/grdpalais/vrml/grdpalais.wrl

  If clicking on a HTTP bsurl link, Webbrowsers like Chrome and Firefox are downloading the file, on click the file will be opened with BSContact.exe.
  The object/embed tag lauching the BSContactVRML Active X Control - x86 Version is still supported in Internet Explorer 11, in other browsers plugins are disabled for security reasons.
  Additional options for viewing VR media:
  A Dome image:
  
[InternetShortcut]
URL=https://cdn.eso.org/videos/videoframe/eso1439a-fulldome-pan.jpg
panoramaFormat=DOME
stereoFormat=MONO
;;contentType=
;;fovX=
;;fovY
;;aspect=


For older release notes please see Developer Information

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