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I’ve made a point of generally avoiding Windows Vista since it lanched. The hassles of saying YES to everything you click in the attempt to be secure quickly drove me crazy (unlike the Mac which asked you on install, but then lets you be). I’ve kept a machine running Vista for testing purposes but recently decided to move it upstream for some of my 3d needs due to a much better CPU than my main desktop. I upgraded to an Nvidia BFG 8800GT OC2, 512MB and all booted/installed fine. Then the nightmare began…

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OrbisRT is a next-generation visualization/game engine. It is a new Parallel World Labs initiative and builds upon prior work in the Centre for Landscape Research (UofToronto), ICDVM (UofWaterloo), and Immersion Studios. OrbisRT is a fully Open Source application (under the Apache license, though some components are LGPL, etc.), based on OpenGL, OpenSceneGraph, and a number of custom tools/modules (including some very nice Shader/Normal Mapping capabilities for terrain).

It is still very early days for this new application but the image here is from a model being constructed for an upcoming workshop and includes data from GIS, a 10kx10k aerial photo texture set, and photogrammetrically corrected (well in progress) models created in SketchUp (a 170+MB dataset), running at over 60fps on a 1920×1200 resolution screen (2.8GHz Pentium D, Nvidia 7950GX2 card not running in SLI mode). Thanks go to the Waterloo team for continuing to model this excellent new dataset!

Network control will be coming in the next week to complete the wrapping of the core PD and NeoPD tools that were used before, then on to all the new Game/MMO features of the previous PwlMMO client based on Torque Game Engine.