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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Wed Dec 21 2005 - 09:57:26 CST

Marc,
  That's great. I saw your posts on the VRPN mailing list and was
wondering how it turned out. So you guys are running your haptic
device(s) with HDAPI now?

  John

On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 12:25:11PM +0100, Marc Baaden wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> this is just for information, as I thought it might be useful for
> some VMD users interacting via virtual reality hardware. As we have
> recently moved our Phantom to use OpenHaptics there was an impending
> requirement to use also VRPN v7.0b5 to drive this. The current VMD
> uses a v6 VRPN client version which does not communicate with a v7
> server.
> But in fact it is actually sufficient to recompile VMD using the VRPN v7
> tree, no other adjustments needed. I can now happily interact with
> the VRPN v7 driven phantom.
>
> Marc Baaden
>
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