ARToolKit 2.70 released with VRML support

The ARToolKit is a collection of libraries, utilities applications, and documentation and sample code. The libraries provide the user with a means to capture images from video sources, process those images to optically track markers in the images, and to allow compositing of computer-generated content with the real-world images and display the result using OpenGL.

This is a note of the availability an ARToolKit release. This version is numbered 2.70.

The release and the full read me is available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/artoolkit/
under "File Releases"

There are a variety of changes since the last release 2.69. Notable changes:
* VRML renderer for ARToolKit, libARvrml, with unified code base across Windows, Linux, Mac OS X. Updated simpleVRML usage example.
* A variety of extra examples demonstrating basic usage and interaction techniques.
* A new example twoView, demonstrating input, processing and output from two (or more) cameras.
* VideoLinuxV4L patch by Uwe Woessner for YUV support (at last!) and patches by Raphael Grasset for improved camera parameter control and compressed jpeg video stream to support the Sony Eyetoy camera.
* VideoLinux1394Cam patch by Wayne Piekarski for improved lib1394 support, including multiple lib1394 versions.
* Preliminary API documentation by Raphael Grasset.

ARToolKit is distributed as a multiple source archive. There are additional source + binary packages for ARToolKit dependencies on the Windows platforms. These include the video input library, DSVideoLib, and OpenVRML. Dependencies for the Unix-based platforms (Linux, Mac OS X, Irix) are handled by package managers on these systems (e.g. Fink on Mac OS X, Debian and/or RPM on Linux).

As bugs come up, please post in the SourceForge bug tracker. This will be the preferred forum for bug reports in future. Patch submissions are also welcomed.

The source for this release is now also in the Sourceforge ARToolKit CVS repository, and may be checked out using anonymous CVS. A tutorial on how to get the source using a CVS GUI tool is at http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=25731&group_id=116280.

There are still more additions and enhancements for ARToolKit in the works here at the HIT Lab NZ, including complete documentation.

Thanks to all the contributors to this release.