VRED Product Comparison

CAD Data Import Formats

VRED supports the import of an assortment of CAD data file formats. For a complete list, see Supported File Formats.

*Only VRED Presenter included in the VRED Professional installer package can import CAD data formats

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Other 3D Import Formats

VRED supports the import of an assortment of non-CAD 3D file formats. For a complete list, see Supported File Formats.

*Only VRED Presenter included in the VRED Professional installer package can import non-CAD 3D formats

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*Autodesk FBX Import Format

Support for cameras, joints, skins, keyframe and vertex animations, lights, and 2x UV sets

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*Universal Scene Description - USD Import Format

Supported formats: .usd, .usda, .usdc, and .usdz

Supported features: Perspective and orthographic cameras, lights, metadata, keyframe and vertex animations, and material UVs

*Only VRED Presenter included in the VRED Professional installer package can import USD files

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*Autodesk Alias WIRE Interoperability

Cameras, invisible instances, lights, variants, switch materials, template geometry, layers, layer folders, empty layers, metadata, animation, and Alias Reference assemblies

*Only VRED Presenter included in the VRED Professional installer package can import WIRE files

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Alias to VRED Live Referencing

Send Alias 2026 data to VRED 2026 for your visualization workflows, updates done in the Alias, such as camera position, object and component-level transformations, material assignments, and more, display in VRED in real time

*Only VRED Presenter included in the VRED Professional installer package can import WIRE files

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True NURBS

Shells and components allow on-demand re-tesselation of CAD data at any time

*Read only in VRED Presenter

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Smart References Module

CAD assembly monitoring and work with non-monolithic VRED files

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Geometry Editor

Re-calculation/orientation of face-/vertex normals, seperating meshes, re-tesselation, and decoring

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Decore Module

Allows users to reduce 3D models to visually relevant information

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Optimization Module

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Scenegraph Editor

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Node Attribute Editor

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Asset Manager

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Example Asset Installer

Standalone installer for additional geometries, materials, environments, and sceneplates

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Web Shops

Substance, Maground, Domeble, Ultraspheres, CGI.Backgrounds, and VRED Library

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Multiple Render Windows

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Customizable UI

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Selection Modes

Select components, asset occurances, clones, objects, groups, sceneplates, by material, adjacency, References, parent, hierarchy, and object behind

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UV Editor

Material UV sets and lightmap UV sets

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Scene Tags and Metadata Editor

Import, add and manage Scene Tags and different Metadata types

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File Export Formats

VPB, OSB, CSB, FBX, OBJ, WRL, 3MF, STL, JT, SLP, USD, USDA, USDC, and USDZ

*VRED Learning Edition is limited to VPB and OSB export

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A/B Side Handling

Toggle visibility of non-visualization relevant data without removing them

*Read only in VRED Presenter

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Light Editor

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Delta Lights

Point, spot, and directional lights

*Read only in VRED Presenter

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Area and Objects Lights

Disc, rectangular, and spherical lights

*Read only in VRED Presenter

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Light Textures

*Read only in VRED Presenter

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IES Light Profiles

*Read only in VRED Presenter

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HDR and LDR Image-based Lighting

*Read only in VRED Presenter

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HDR Light Studio Live Link

Area Light support with HDR Light Studio Tungsten Release or higher

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Skylight Environment

*Read only in VRED Presenter

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Realtime Shadows

Realtime shadow map support for delta, area, and object lights

*Read only in VRED Presenter

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Realtime Shadows for Environments

*Read only in VRED Presenter

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Light and Shadow Baking Module

Vertex-based and texture-based ambient occlusion, shadows & light, and shadows on CPU and GPU (Cluster)

*Only 1x GPU supported in VRED Design

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VRED Material Types

*Read only in VRED Presenter

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Multi Pass Material

*Read only in VRED Presenter

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Layered Material

*Read only in VRED Presenter

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Switch Material

*Read only in VRED Presenter

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X-Ray Material

*Read only in VRED Presenter

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Subsurface Scattering

Raytracing only

*Read only in VRED Presenter

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Rounded Edges

Raytracing only

*Read only in VRED Presenter

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Substance - SBSAR Material

SDK version 9.1.2, supported workflows: Metallic Roughness, Metallic Roughness - Anisotropy, Metallic Roughness - Coated

*Read only in VRED Presenter

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MaterialX

SDK version 1.39.1

*Read only in VRED Presenter

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NVIDIA - MDL

SDK version 2024.0.4

*Read only in VRED Presenter

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Volume Rendering

Homogeneous and heterogeneous scatter volumes and OpenVDB volumes

*VRED Design read-only support, VRED Presenter has no UI but offers editing capabilities through Python

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Ray File Visualization

Plain ASCII, Osram ASCII and ray file format, LucidShape ASCII, binary and spectral ray file format, and Speos ASCII and ray file format (RAY_SPEOS10 & RAY_SPEOS20)

**VRED Design read-only support, VRED Presenter: Modifications can only be made indirectly through Python

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X-Rite BTF Materials

*VRED Design read-only support, VRED Presenter has no UI but offers editing capabilities through Python

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X-Rite AxF Materials

Support of translucent AxF materials

*VRED Design read-only support, VRED Presenter has no UI but offers editing capabilities through Python

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Office Color Science - BRDF Materials

*VRED Design read-only support, VRED Presenter has no UI but offers editing capabilities through Python

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Camera Projection Modes

Perspective, Orthographic, Spherical Map, Peters Map, Vertical Cross, Horizontal Cross, Omnidirectional Stereo, and Custom Matrix

*Read only in VRED Presenter

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Physical Lens Attributes

*Read only in VRED Presenter

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Depth of Field

Realtime and Stillframe Depth of Field

*Read only in VRED Presenter

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Motion Blur

*Read only in VRED Presenter

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Tonemapping

Reinhard Luminance/RGB, Logarithmic Luminance/RGB, Filmic Tone Mapping, Physical Camera, and Luminance & Illuminance

*Read only in VRED Presenter

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Sensor Response Curves

Custom Response Curves, OpenColorIO, AgX, AgX Punchy and AgX Custom for Physical Camera Tonemapper

*Read only in VRED Presenter

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View Transforms

ACES 1.0, ACES 2.0, Khronos PBR Neutral and Un-tone-mapped

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Look

None, ACES 1.3 Reference Gamut Compression and LMT - Blue Light Artifact Fix

*Read only in VRED Presenter

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Basic Color Correction

White Balance, Hue-Shift, Contrast, Brightness and Saturation

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Color Grading

Primary, Tone and RGB Curves color grading, 3D-LUTs

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Chromatic Aberration

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Glow

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Glare

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Fog

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Lens Flares

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Vignette Effect

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Camera Blend Maps

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Camera Collision Detection

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Match Camera/Backplate Tool

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Display Clustering - Rasterization

Required for multi-display setup such as caves and powerwalls

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Hardware Rendering Modes

Realistic, Vertex/Face Normal, Baked Ambient Occlusion, Indirect Illumination, and Non-Photorealistic Rendering

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Standard Pixel Filters

Triangle, Gaussian, and B-spline

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Offline Rendering

VRED Learning Edition contains a watermark in the image

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OpenGL

Default real-time renderer

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Vulkan

New real-time rendererd with hybrid ray-tracing capabilities such as raytraced amnbient occlusion, raytraced environment shadows and raytraced reflecions

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CPU Raytracing

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GPU Raytracing

Supported on NVIDIA GPUs with Maxwell or newer architecture, *Only 1x GPU supported in VRED Design

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Photon Mapping with Caustics

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AI GPU and CPU Denoise Filter for Raytracing in Render Settings

NVIDIA OptiX AI-accelerated and Intel Open Image Denoiser

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NVIDIA DLSS-RR (Deep Learning Super Sampling - Ray Reconstruction) in 3D Viewport

Requires GPU with NVIDIA Tensor Core technology

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Variable Rate Shading

Desktop and content adaptive, foveated rendering support for HMDs

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Screen Space Ambient Occlusion

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Transparency Modes

Object Sorting and Depth Peeling

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Downscale

Downscales raytracing renderview resolution

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Offline Render Passes

Combined, Material, Illumination, Image Processing, and Auxilary channels

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Cryptomatte

Cryptomatte material and object pass support

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Render Layer Module

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Variant Set Render Module

Configure and render combinations of variant sets within the Render Setting module

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Render Queue Module

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32-Bit Output

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ICC Color Profiles

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Rendering Color Spaces

Linear Rec.709 (sRGB), ACEScg, Linear P3-D65, and Linear Rec.2020

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Image Metadata

Saves Render Settings, Cameras, Scenegraph visibility, and Material Switch state in the image metadata

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Display Cluster - Raytracing

Required for multi-display setup such as caves and powerwalls

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Hardware Rendering Modes

Surface Analysis and Analytic Rendering

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Off-line Render Clustering

*Requires additional Render Nodes for VRED Design. VRED Pro can be clustered with other VRED Pros

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Real-time Raytracing Cluster

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Cluster Manager

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Real-time Renderpasses

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Advanced Pixel Filters

Box, Mitchell Netravalli, Lanczos, Catmull Rom, Sharp Triangle, Sharp Gaussian, and Sharp B-Spline

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Spectral Rendering

CPU and GPU Raytracing support. Color Spectrum using FWHM. Optis/Osram Spectrum file support

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Photometric Rendering Parameters

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Raytrace Material Overrides

Allows changing Raytrace Settings for Materials

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Sequencer Module

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Render Farm Support

Supports integration with render farm solutions, such as Deadline, Qube/pipeline FX, and Smedge. Note that these requires custom integration

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Histogram

Shows the Histogram in the Viewport for R, G, B, Logarithmic Scale, and Grayscale

*VRED Presenter has no UI but offers editing capabilities through Python

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Scenegraph Nodes

Group, Shell, Material Group, Switch, Clip Plane, Billboard, Matrix Transform, Sound, Sound Obstructer, Distance LOD, Stereo Switch, and Host Switch

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Sceneplate Editor

2D backplates (images and image sequences) and 2D frontplates (text, images, image sequences, HTML5)

*Read-only support for HTML5 in VRED Design

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Variants and Variant Sets Module

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Camera Viewpoints

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Curve Editor Module

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Clip Maker Module

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Advanced Animation Capabilities

ClipMaker Add Sequence, and VRML Animation Editor

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Grid and Ruler

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Measurement Tools Module

Point to Point, Point to Object, Object to Object, Line to Object, and Circle measurement

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Clipping Module

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Annotation Module

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Direct NURBS Rendering

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Surface Analysis Module

Analytic rendering modes for high end surface evaluation and Alias Curvature Mode on NURBS data

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Measurement Module

Gap Measurement

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HDR10 Display Support

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OpenVR & OpenXR Support

OpenXR supports: 10bit HDR rendering, Python APIv2, foveated rendering, Varjo quad viewport, marker tracking, and depth estimation

*Read only in VRED Presenter

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Oculus Rift & Rift S, Meta Quest 3, HTC VIVE, VIVE Pro, VIVE Pro 2, VIVE Pro Eye, VIVE Cosmos, VIVE Cosmos Elite, VIVE XR Elite, VIVE Focus Vision, Shiftall MeganeX, WinMR, HP Reverb, HP Reverb G2, VRHero/XTAL, StarVR, Varjo VR-1, VR-2, XR-1, XR-3, XR-4, Aero HMD, and Logitech VR Ink Pilot Support

WinMR headsets and HP Reverb HMD are supported via OpenVR

*Read only in VRED Presenter

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VR/Desktop Collaboration Module

Avatar and controller representation, OOTB teleport, laser pointer, VR menu, 3D spatial speech, and audio support

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3D Mouse and Joystick Support

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Touch Sensor Module

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Standard Stereo Modes

Active (Double Buffer), Horizontal Interlaced and Vertical Interlaced, Left/Right and Top/Bottom Split, and Separate Left Eye and Right Eye

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Remote Session Connection

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Publish Project / Package

Save a package containing all referenced data and content. Encryptionand Timestamp support

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Shared Views

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VRED Go

Publish Windows Executables

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VR Hand Interaction

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HTML5 Media Editor

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Anaglyphic Stereo Modes

Red/Cyan, Blue/Yellow, and Green/Magenta

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VRPN Tracking Module

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VRED Navigation App

Web/mobile presentation controller

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VRED Streaming App

Web interface to navigate variant sets, viewpoints, quality settings, and create/join collaboration sessions

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VRED Stream

JPEG, PNG (with Alpha Channel), and H264 (H264 codec must be installed)

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Web Interface

Webserver to execute remote Python commands

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Web API

Python v2 API access via JavaScript

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Python Scripting Editor

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Collision API

API only (no User Interface), *Script execution only in VRED Design and Presenter

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Script Plugins

Add plugins and modules to main menu bar

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Command Line Terminal

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