Caligari launches trueSpace7
trueSpace7 was launched on January 19th 2006. trueSpace7 is the only 3D authoring product on the market to offer all aspects of real-time design, modeling, and animation within a virtual 3D space shared by remote participants over the broadband internet. trueSpace’s easy-to-use authoring tools, based on an innovative direct manipulation user interface, are seamlessly integrated into the underlying collaborative process.

“Within trueSpace7, we have taken great pains to enhance the creative tools for current 3D developers as well as share our vision for where 3D content creation is going,” said Roman Ormandy, president of Caligari Corproration. “We believe that the playing field of 3D development will soon be reshaped by the need for online collaboration and we will help our developers through the process by offering live training in a shared 3D space on the Caligari web site.”

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Caligari Demonstrates trueSpace7 at GDC
Caligari gave the first ever public demonstration of trueSpace7 at the 2005 Game Developers Conference, held at San Francisco's Moscone Center March 9th-11th. Attendees got a first-hand look at the next generation of content authoring environments - featuring real-time collaboration over the Internet. Read more.

Caligari licenses V-Ray
Caligari announces licensing of V-Ray renderer for the next generation of trueSpace. To be made available as an optional component, V-Ray from Chaos Group features caustics, true raytraced motion blur, global illumination and more. Equally important, it offers all this while also being efficient and quick in rendering.

This brings the number of available render engines for the next generation of trueSpace to 3, with Lightworks and Virtualight being included as standard components.

Caligari Ships gameSpace1.6
A free update from 1.5 to 1.6 was released for gameSpace, offering improvements to UV mapping capabilities and several game format import and exports.
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Nortel Networks KidzOnline Chooses trueSpace
Kidz Online, a non-profit educational organization aiming to prepare K-12 students and teachers to live and work in the information age, selected trueSpace 3.2 to give a solid foundation in the basics of 3D animation. "trueSpace is powerful without being too complex, and the interface is nicely intuitive to the beginner in 3D," said course designer Ian Dale.
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