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After an inexcusable long hiatus, I wanted to share some insight into current development work for SSTT, which I hope to release by end of the year under an open source license.

Some new kids on the block for statistics

Blender XR - an extension (paid) to use Blender 2.8 EVEE for XR development. Google Filament Renderer updated to 1.2.0 - one of the best PBR Renderer out there (Apache License) ParaView 3D some good old stuff that still wows people.

So this week was slightly slim on CG news. Let’s take a look around. These Drupal SA 2019-001 and Drupal SA 2019 002 are not causing me anymore cold sweat. Oh and in more CG related news: a way cool realtime raytraced Quake.

This week I was rather busy with other things, such as IEEE VR reviewing. But here we go … Meta shutting down, and for once this is really bad collateral. I liked the Meta and its approach.

Kind of old news of the end of 2018 … Gesture Sensing With A Temperature Sensor - this looks really interesting and worth to try. Feelreal Wants to Add Smell & Haptics to Your VR Headset - VR is the place for “history repeating” - need to dig through my old slides.

A healthy, successful and prosperous year 2019!

impressive open source graphics engine The G3D Innovation Engine for over two and half years this bug is lingering around in Qt bugtracker and no end in sight. Somehow this shows the contradicting positions when a company is on one side selling a commercially derived product and on the other side people want to freely contribute.

just two interesting links out of CG land … Infinite Zoom to Visualize relative size libcamera promising new camera API for Linux

Visual Studio Code for C++ Development Vega-Lite – A Grammar of Interactive Graphics 9 obscure Python libraries for data science Saliency in VR: How do People Explore Virtual Environments?