Dalton Industries Inc. has announced that it has begun development of a new plug-in for LightWave3D for use with the Oculus Rift Virtual Reality Head Mounted Display. The final product will be retailed through Liberty3d.com. Based on the company's popular Stereoscopic 3D and advanced multi-camera system for LightWave3D, UberCam, this new plug-in enhancement will greatly expand the creative potential of CG artists working in Stereoscopic 3D as well as bring virtual world creation to a new level.

By combining the power of UberCam Stereoscopic 3D technology with the Oculus Rift are able to utilize LightWave3D as a content creation tool working in Stereoscopic Virtual Reality. This gives artists immediate and immersive feedback with respect to the environments built in the computer, how characters interact with those environments and each other, bringing even closer to the concepts of the Virtual Art Department and Virtual Film Making, pioneered on movies such as Avatar. The company expects to make versions of the plug-in available to advanced beta testers by late summer 2014 and a fully production-ready retail edition shortly thereafter.

It will be sold through Liberty3d.com, complete with video-based training and examples of its use.