From prototyping to full deployment of advanced applications for internal and commercial use, Open Inventor® offers high-level tools that enable developers to rapidly design and build advanced 3D interactive graphics applications and significantly reduces the process of designing, developing, and maintaining applications.

The Open Inventor® kernel and high-level components are based on robust and innovative technologies. The Open Inventor framework delivers reliable and powerful core capabilities for the development of your application, such as out-of-core 3D data management, multi-CPU and multi-GPU support, remote application, multi-screen and immersive VR environments, interoperability with GPU-computing, real-time ray-tracing, and more.

The Open Inventor® package includes a complete suite of extensions that enable easy customization for specialized markets or unique application needs. By packaging innovative intellectual property with these extensions, VSG gives you instant access to the latest visualization techniques: Large Data Management for volume rendering, ultimate scalability through rendering distribution and remote application, advanced 2D/3D scientific visualization technologies, ray-traced realistic rendering and more.

Open Inventor® is tuned for best interoperability with your preferred, legacy or required environment. It smoothly integrates with your application at optimal performance with easy to maintain interfaces. Open Inventor complements nicely geometric modeling or simulation engines and is a preferred replacement for old-generation 3D graphics. You can even take advantage of Open Inventor with existing OpenGL code, or extend it at the OpenGL level. Open Inventor provides GUI components for Win32, MFC, WinForms, X11/Motif, Qt, and Java that can be customized to fit your specific constraints.

Open Inventor® is built around industry-standard specifications with openness in mind and is designed for maximum portability and system independence. Its flexible architecture ensures its perfect adaptability to existing and upcoming environments. Added to its proven reliability, this makes Open Inventor® a solution which optimizes development costs with long-term investment protection.

Don't want to re-invent the wheel? Open Inventor® provides high-level built-in components which deliver ready-to-use robust solutions to common but thorny issues in 3D advanced applications development. Open Inventor allows you to keep up with cutting edge techniques with least effort, including the performance optimization coming with every new generation of hardware that require additional work with low-level APIs.

Proven itself to be faster than any other Open Inventor®-like implementation, Open Inventor® is not only a product, its also a team. Developed, maintained and supported by a large and highly qualified professional team serving several thousand developers and hundred of thousands of end-users through run-times of professional applications, the product is evolving on a regular basis with a major yearly release and several bi-monthly sub releases in between, both enhancing the product in answering specific customer requests and providing fixes for potential issues. VSG has been working for over 20 years in 3D visualization and has acquired unique knowledge and expertise, and has invested years in tuning and enhancing the core Open Inventor® and making it evolve with the latest hardware features available.