BlenderCave

Easy Virtual Reality authoring framework for CAVEs

What is BlenderCave?

BlenderCave is a system based on Blender 3D and Blender Game Engine (BGE) which makes possible Virtual Reality applications and videogames in many screens simultaneously.

Our system is built on the advanced graphics engine BGE and allows an efficient communication between screens.

As a result, BlenderCave is able to generate highly detailed virtual worlds, realistic effects and smooth animations.

Images of our CAVE (4x4x3 meters size).

Who uses BlenderCave

Even though BlenderCave is still a young open source project, many of us find it useful and usable. And we are trying to improve it.

If you find BlenderCave useful and you would like to be in this list, please, contact at jorge.gascon.perez[AT]gmail dot com

Users & Developers

Jorge Gascón Pérez

Hi, I am a PhD student and I work in the GMRV group, at University King Juan Carlos in Madrid (Spain), we are working in its CAVE, mainly for neuronal visualizations, virtual heritage projects and medical applications.

We started BlenderCave project at the end of 2010 and until now we are trying to improving it, making it more flexible and with more compatibility with modern gaming devices (Nintendo Wiimote ™, Microsoft Kinect ™) but this is still a work in progress.

Do you use BlenderCave too? Please, let us know!

Highlights

Perfect fit between screens:

BlenderCave is able to keep a perfect syncronization between different screens, also if objects are moving quickly from one screen to another one.

Current version of our system has been tested successfully in a 4 screen CAVE but it is also suitable for an higher number of screens.

Cutting Edge Graphics:

Create rich and detailed virtual worlds with BlenderCave and Blender Game Engine (BGE):

• OpenGL.
• MultiTexture, up to infinite textures per surface.
• Shaders with GLSL 1.4.
• Realtime Shadows.
• Rigged animated characters.
• Bullet engine Physics.

Scene assets based on a BGE scene made by martinsh
(http://devlog-martinsh.blogspot.com)

Thank you Martinsh!

Multi User Experience:

Create highly interactive multi-user virtual applications and videogames.

• Easy addon of new interaction devices.
• User position and orientation tracking (in development).
• Nintendo™ WiiMote® compatibility (in development).
• Microsoft™ Kinect® compatibility (in development).

Wide Range of Applications:

Nor only is BlenderCave designed for videogames, but also it is perfectly capable of perform in many industrial and research environments.

Easy to integrate:

BlenderCave is a set of extensions integrated into a .blend file (we call it VCC Template) this template has one camera per physical screen ans a set of communication scripts which perform the "magic".

Enable MultiScreen support to your existing BGE scene in less than a minute!

For deeper modifications, BlenderCave is extensible with Python and C/C++.

Video Tutorial:

High Scalability:

BlenderCave is designed to be highly scalable, our lightweight protocol can make possible the communication between many screens and computation nodes. Always at the maximum performance.

Still not convinced?

Try it for free!

BlenderCave community edition is Open Source (CC) and free. So you can download it, use it, improve it, hack it or whatever you want!

If you are interested in support, installation, development, modelling or scene building, you can contact us at
jorge.gascon.perez[AT]gmail dot com

In addition, you can contact us using this contact form.

BlenderCave for developers

If you are interested in BlenderCave development, you can check out our public repository at:

https://github.com/jgascon/BlenderCave