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VR Juggler Project History

This page shows the major events in the timeline of VR Juggler development.

June 1996 Design discussions begin
Janaury 1997 Code writing begins
Mid-April 1998 Name changed from VRlib to VR Juggler
July 1, 1998 First successful test with multiple pipes and tracking
July 10, 1998 First successful stereo viewing test
Semptember 15, 1998 Alpha 1 released
October 6, 1998 Alpha 2 released
October 26, 1998 Alpha 3 released (source not tagged)
February 15, 1999 Alpha 4 released
February 16, 1999 Alpha 4.1 released
July 6, 1999 Beta 1.0 released
October 8, 1999 Version 0.1.1 (beta 1.1) released
??? 1999 First freeware release to educational institutions
January 27, 2000 First open source (LGPL) release (version 0.1.95)
June 19-20, 2000 VR Juggler powers C6 grand opening at IPT 2000
October 2, 2000 VR Juggler source code moved to SourceForge.net
December 13, 2000 VR Juggler 1.0 stabilization begins; VR Juggler 1.1 development begins
April 13, 2001 Version 1.0.0 released
August 21, 2001 First VR Juggler Birds of a Feather meeting at SIGGRAPH 2001
Mid-October 2001 VR Juggler 1.1 separated into modules: VPR, JCCL, Gadgeteer, and VR Juggler
November 8, 2001 Tweek is incorporated into the mix
February 17, 2002 First version of ClusterJuggler merged into main CVS trunk
June 14, 2002 First VR Juggler 1.1 developer release
July 9, 2002 Second version of ClusterJuggler merged into main CVS trunk
July 16, 2002 VRJConfig replaces VjControl in VR Juggler 1.1 development tree
November 19–21, 2002 VR Juggler 1.1 clustering is demonstrated in an exhibit at Supercomputing 2002
November 22, 2002 Initial work on PyJuggler committed to the CVS repository
December 12, 2002 Initial work on VRJ.NET (based on Managed C++) committed to the CVS repository
February 26, 2003 Third version of ClusterJuggler merged into main CVS trunk
March 15, 2003 First VR Juggler 2.0 alpha release
March 16, 2003 First release of PyJuggler announced
July 2, 2003 Release of PyJuggler 0.7.0, the first version with comprehensive class coverage
July 10, 2003 Third version of configuration file format and configuration definition file format (featuring fully versioned components) merged into the main CVS trunk
January 14, 2004 New version of VRJ.NET based on C# and its Platform Invocation Services imported to the CVS repository
December 24, 2004 VR Juggler 2.0 Beta 1 and PyJuggler 1.0 Beta 1 released
July 5, 2005 VR Juggler 2.0.0 released
July 7, 2005 PyJuggler 1.0.0 released
April 5, 2007 Cocoa windowing set as the default on Mac OS X for VR Juggler 2.1 and beyond



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