Dear RT-Middleware Users,I would like to bring the VirCA (Virtual Collaboration Arena) RT-Middleware based 3D framework into your attention, which could be considered as a virtual intelligent space extension for OpenRTM-aist. The best way of discovering VirCA is visiting www.virca.hu where several demo videos and a brief introduction helps to understand the operation and capabilities. 

Basically, VirCA provide a shared 3D virtual space for OpenRTM-aist powered robotic (or any other) solutions what can be used for prototyping, system management or user interface purposes. VirCA is free to use and we plan to make it open source in the near future. Since the latest public release, several bugfixes and improvements were done and developer version is also available upon request. 

Let me attach one of our conference paper about VirCA with the following bibliographic data: 
[1] P. Galambos and P. Baranyi, “VirCA as Virtual Intelligent Space for RT-Middleware,” in 2011 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM), 2011, pp. 140–145.

@INPROCEEDINGS{GalambosAIM2011,

author={Galambos, P{\'e}ter and Baranyi, P{\'e}ter},

booktitle={Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM), 2011 IEEE/ASME International Conference on},

title={VirCA as Virtual Intelligent Space for RT-Middleware},

year={2011},
month={july},
pages={140 -145},
numcitations = {1},
ISSN={2159-6247}
}Finally, forgive me that I am using the mailing list for such a non-technical purpose, but actually this is the best forum to announce any RT-Middleware related software developments.

If someone has any question, comment or request about VirCA do not hesitate to contact me. We would be very happy to cooperate with other RTM users.Best regards,

Peter Galambos--Peter GALAMBOSResearcherLeader of VirCA application development team - www.virca.huCogInfoCom 2012!!!

http://conf.uni-obuda.hu/coginfocom2012/Cognitive Informatics Group, Systems and Control LabComputer and Automation Research Institute

Hungarian Academy of SciencesH-1111 Budapest, Kende u. 13-17.Phone: +36 1 279 - 6000 / 7213Fax:     +36 1 279 - 6218

E-mail: galambos@sztaki.mta.hu