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Without too much fanfare here is a video of our simplest tech demo:

It shows a short but very hi-res snippet of BBC’s Planet Earth documentary playing in a 3D environment. It allows for some minimal user interaction. This came about one night because I decided to see how quickly I could make a simple demo in Luster. Turns out, pretty quickly. I finished this in about 1 hour, and it took 78 lines of code. Most of that was simple scene setup (position lights, position cube, position camera, etc.).

We also want to let everyone know that Luster is starting to come out of its shell. For the next few months a student at RIT is using Luster to create a demo inside of the dome. The demo is a 3D version of Asteriods using the Wii Remote for control. In order for this to work Luster must render in 4 viewports in super-widescreen, which then gets wrapped all around you to create immersion. Some of you may have experienced this before in CAVE installations, or even in an Imax theater.