Yes! We’re getting very close to this years Eurohaptics in Madrid and thus the next major release of H3DAPI.

Mark the 10th of June as the official release of H3DAPI version 2.0 Beta! This release comes with many new features and one of them includes stable support for the low priced Novint Falcon haptic device. The Novint Falcon is developed for the gaming industry but works very well for research and educational/programming use. SenseGraphics actually sold well over 100 Novint Falcon devices to Universities and other schools all around Europe, some of them even buying the device for full class room settings. Using the Falcon together with H3DAPI is a nice way of learning programming in 3D environments and a good entry point for students if they want to learn more advanced programming for medical simulators (as one example). Check out SenseGraphics Hall of Fame to see some of the examples on what can be done with H3DAPI.

Back to Eurohaptics in Madrid!
Starting the 10th with workshops the 11th of June marks the start for presentations and the industrial exhibitions. SenseGraphics, MOOG FCS, ForceDimension, Immersion, Haption will be there to mention a few companies active in the field.
The 12th, SenseGraphics will be holding a presentation in Aula C which includes “H3DAPI tech talk” and some more presentations from people actually using the software for application development. MOOG FCS will present more about their recently developed simulator for the dental industry. To our knowledge this would be the first hardware including haptics features targeting the dental simulating/teaching industry solely.

If you can not make it for the Eurohaptics conference, stay tuned on this blog as we hope to present more from Madrid here!