Lowering prices is often a way to roll to new target markets, from early adopter and hi-end market (technology enthusiast) versus wider market.
Previous LinceoVR prices was not surely right for DCC, architectural cad users.
Autodesk applied the same business model with his product showcase; they lowered prices at 1/8 of the original price.

Andrea

Raytracke will be available from next upgrade in september, right now linoceVR has realtime render, HDRI and Openexr lighting, shadows, ambient occlusion shadows, realtime animation etc etc.

There also are rhino version and standard version, which are suitable for most of the activities and they cost less than the others.

LinceoVR is not really in competition with Hypershot, hypershot is an interactive reaytracer, their claim is your 3d camera (a quick way to create outstanding raytraced shhots), LinceoVR is a design review software, a tool to allow designers architects, to inspect their creation in realtime, check different colors, matials, lighting conditions and benchmark it with different version in the real world, it is a braistorming, presentation tool, and a good way to have very good quality images, and video in zero time. May be LinceoVR will compete with hypershop when will be released raytracing extension.

andrea

HAve you seen tha video in the blog? [url]http://www.seac02.it\blog[/url] realtime animation and 3dsound

The prices starting from september will be lower and lower. enterprise will be 5.800,00 € and professional 2850,00 €
and at the end of september free upgrade to 3.2 with realtime raytracing.

andrea

for sure!
download and use it!
soon will start an exciting contest
ciao
andrea

at the end of 2009 the license will terminate, you will be able to reniew if you will be still student, otherway you will have to buy a commercial license, wich anyway is really cheap.
andrea

It means free till the end of 2009, you have to send a scan of a regular inscription to your college, download the software, install on your pc, generate the request code for the license with the flas student edition, send it, wait 1 day maximum 2 and start using linceoVR, virtual reality and aumented reality. You cant use the software for commercial purposes but you can use for your study or your fun.
ciao

I think that the mai difference between LinceoVR and Hypershot is not in the render quality but in the use, what about brainstorming ideas in front a virtual protoype? moving 3d model in different point of view? change materials in realtime, switching HDRI lighting on the fly? With hypershot you can't with LinceoVR you can.
IMHO LinceoVR and Hypershot are different tools with different uses; design review, marketing imaging, design analysis and sales for LinceoVR, advertising, press quality production for Hypershot.
I want announce that linceoVR 3.0 has been released yesterday, I remember that is free for all the students and that it will have in 2 month a native sketchup importer.
this is an image created in 2 second on a single core notebook, about 15M polygons, you can rotate in realtime in any point of view.

not yet we are working on it, it will be released for next summer, before we will release a middle version with raytracing
you can run it using parallels

andrea

It seems that you not enabled the shadows at all, you can create realtime shadows or using occusion shadows tha has to be precalculated once.
When you import obj or 3ds you have to setup materials in liceovR to obtain render quality.
To create animations is better to use the spline path controller.
In terms of render quality see this youtube videos.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-owNYDomtM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbJbiNiIr8M

DOF can be done realtime as well lens flare.

Please can you send me the obj scene to setup into linceovr and send you back?

ciao

andrea

Yes I agree with you, we are working to a direct importer from SketchUp as we did for rhinoceros.
LinceoVr 3.0 will be released in the middle of january, right now you can download the trial of version 2.1 and of easyOn AR software from this link. For the students there is a special version for free, we need to received a valid certificate from the student to activate the license.
downlaod link: http://user.augmented-reality.it/products/