Autodesk has had a VR developement group for several years. Many of the
initial members (Brickens, etc) have moved on but i understand there is
still an active development group. I haven't heard any rumors of near term
releases about Autodesk, but there are hints about several VR toolkits
being released 'Real Soon Now'.
Jerry
There's actually a company in Warren, NJ that just started shipping a VR
hardware/software toolkit for 3D Studio models. It can do a solid 7
frames-per-second of real-time movement in ANY COMPLEXITY 3DS scene, with
full shadows, mapping, etc. The way they do this is with a pre-processing
stage that virtually renders the scene from a set of views that enable you
to move with a full 6-degrees-of-freedom. It takes alot of RAM, and the
package costs $7K, but it's pretty amazing.
Their name is Straylight, and their phone number is 908/580/0086.
– G