It has been way too long that I have publicly released a new version of the Vrui VR toolkit. The main issue was that I had been chasing evolving hardware, from the Oculus Rift DK1 to the Oculus Rift DK2, and now to HTC’s Vive. During that long stretch of time, I was never happy with the state of support of any of these devices.

That’s finally changed. I have been working on full native support for HTC’s Vive head-mounted display over the last few months (with the first major break-through in May), and I think it’s working really well. There are still a lot of improvements to make and sharp edges to sand off, but I feel it is worthwhile releasing the software as it is now to get some early testing done. So without much further ado, here is Vrui-4.2-004.

Figure 1: Vrui’s ClusterJello toy application running on an HTC Vive head-mounted display. Recorded using a second-generation Microsoft Kinect camera (Kinect-for-Xbox-One).
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