Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds
From: cdshaw@cs.ualberta.ca (Chris Shaw)
Subject: The MR Toolkit Version 1.0 is now available
Message-Id: <1991Dec13.231117.14510@cs.UAlberta.CA>
Summary: Free VR software to licenced academic institutions
Sender: news@cs.ualberta.ca (News Administrator)
Organization: University of Alberta
Date: 	Fri, 13 Dec 1991 16:11:17 -0700


                        A N N O U N C I N G

                    The MR Toolkit Version 1.0


The MR Toolkit is a subroutine library that supports the development
of Virtual Reality user interfaces and other forms of three dimensional
user interfaces. The MR Toolkit provides support for various devices,
such as the Polhemus Isotrak digitizer, VPL DataGlove, VPL EyePhone and
sound synthesis equipment, that are commonly used in VR systems. 

The MR Toolkit also supports the distribution of the user interface
over multiple workstations, data distributed over several workstations,
numerous interaction techniques, physical and virtual geometry management,
and real-time performance analysis tools. The current version of the
MR Toolkit is callable from C programs on SGI and DEC workstations. 
Some elements of the MR Toolkit will also run on other UNIX platforms.

The toolkit is available at no cost to licenced academic and research
institutions. To get version 1.0 of the MR toolkit, you must sign
the licence form and mail it back to the University of Alberta.
The person signing it should be a full-time employee of your
organization, with a title such as Professor, Director, Manager, etc.

If you are interested in the MR Toolkit, you can either ftp the PostScript
copy of the licence from

	menaik.cs.ualberta.ca ... Address:  129.128.4.241

	cd pub/graphics/MR  and get the file "licence.ps"

You will have to use binary mode in ftp to get licence.ps

Or, you can email cdshaw@cs.UAlberta.ca, and I'll email you a uuencoded
version of the PostScript licence form.

Mail the signed licence form to:

    Professor Mark Green
    Department of Computing Science
    615 General Services Building
    University of Alberta
    Edmonton, Alberta
    Canada
    T6G 2H1

The MR Toolkit is distributed by blind FTP, so please include your email
address in the licence form so we can tell you how to get the MR Toolkit.

--
Chris Shaw               University of Alberta
cdshaw@cs.UAlberta.ca    CatchPhrase: Bogus as HELL !

