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From: Dipesh Bhattarai (dipesh.bhattarai_at_gmail.com)
Date: Tue Nov 17 2009 - 13:04:59 CST

You will have to compile VMD with VRPN support enabled and have VRPN
server running. After that, any device that can communicate with VRPN
server can be used in VMD.

Dipesh

On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 12:03 PM, Carsten Olbrich
<ocarsten_at_googlemail.com> wrote:
> Dear VMD users,
>
> for our multimedia lab we got a 3D holo bench  including a Flystick2
> (http://www.ar-tracking.de/Flystick2.55.0.html).
> This set runs with the tracking program DTrack. Unfortunately not all
> of buttons/button combinations do not have a functionality.
> Does anybody have experiences with setting up this device? Or is there
> a possibility that VMD and the Flystick can communicate directly with
> each other (like VRPN)?
>
> We also have a OMNI Phantom device. Am I right, that I have to run an
> VRPN server? And if so, do I have to compile VMD from source including
> some VRPN libraries or may I use the prebuild VMD version?
>
> Thanks for any suggestions and ideas!
>
> Cheers,
> Carsten
> 

-- 
Dipesh Bhattarai, PhD