# Plans for built-in 3D Connexion Support?
**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/plans-for-built-in-3d-connexion-support/1129
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [January 11, 2019, 12:05am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/plans-for-built-in-3d-connexion-support/1129 "2019-01-11T00:05:35Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@jkulesza](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/jkulesza)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2019, 12:05am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/plans-for-built-in-3d-connexion-support/1129/1 "2019-01-11T00:05:35Z")
ParaView Developers,
Are there plans to support [3D Connexion SpaceMouse products](https://www.3dconnexion.com/products/spacemouse.html) without requiring users to build ParaView from source?
I have successfully built using the instructions [here](https://bl.ocks.org/peterfpeterson/aec736a8e205b45d0bf3) (likely based on [this wiki entry](https://www.paraview.org/Wiki/Space_Navigator)). However, I am curious about the status of this.
Thank you,
Joel
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2019, 8:40am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/plans-for-built-in-3d-connexion-support/1129/2 "2019-01-11T08:40:20Z")
AFAIK, the VRPlugin is available in ParaView release since ParaView 5.5.
You should be able to use it directly without needing to build ParaView.
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### Author:  [@jkulesza](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/jkulesza)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2019, 3:03pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/plans-for-built-in-3d-connexion-support/1129/3 "2019-01-11T15:03:55Z")
Thank you for the quick reply. When I saw VR I thought of technology like Oculus and not 3D mice. I’ll give it a shot.
Thanks again,
Joel
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### Author:  [@jkulesza](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/jkulesza)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2019, 4:24pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/plans-for-built-in-3d-connexion-support/1129/4 "2019-01-14T16:24:23Z")
> AFAIK, the VRPlugin is available in ParaView release since ParaView 5.5.
Is that true for macOS releases? I don’t see it in 5.6.0, as downloaded from [paraview.org](http://paraview.org).
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2019, 4:28pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/plans-for-built-in-3d-connexion-support/1129/5 "2019-01-14T16:28:08Z")
@cory.quammen
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### Author:  [@cory.quammen](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/cory.quammen)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2019, 4:42pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/plans-for-built-in-3d-connexion-support/1129/6 "2019-01-14T16:42:56Z")
The VRPlugin is not packaged with macOS. I am not aware of a reason it couldn’t be, though.
Note that the is different from the OpenVR now supported in the Windows binaries. The VRPlugin predates the OpenVR “Send to VR” feature by quite a few years, and it depends on VRPN and/or VRUI as middleware between ParaView and the VR or 3D input devices.
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### Author:  [@jkulesza](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/jkulesza)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2019, 4:44pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/plans-for-built-in-3d-connexion-support/1129/7 "2019-01-14T16:44:22Z")
> The VRPlugin is not packaged with macOS. I am not aware of a reason it couldn’t be, though.
Is this an enhancement request that I should file in the tracker? Or, going back to my original question: is this already in the plans/works?
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### Author:  [@cory.quammen](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/cory.quammen)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2019, 6:41pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/plans-for-built-in-3d-connexion-support/1129/8 "2019-01-14T18:41:19Z")
> [@jkulesza](#):
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> Is this an enhancement request that I should file in the tracker?
Sure, that would be good.
> [@jkulesza](#):
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> Or, going back to my original question: is this already in the plans/works?
Not to my knowledge.
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### Author:  [@Joshua\_Spencer](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Joshua_Spencer)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2019, 10:29pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/plans-for-built-in-3d-connexion-support/1129/9 "2019-01-16T22:29:29Z")
I tried this on windows see below the vr plugin is different. I tried using the vr plugin that is there and that did not help with the 3D mouse operation.
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### Author:  [@cory.quammen](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/cory.quammen)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2019, 1:54am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/plans-for-built-in-3d-connexion-support/1129/10 "2019-01-17T01:54:07Z")
It takes some configuration. See [https://www.paraview.org/Wiki/Immersive\_ParaView](https://www.paraview.org/Wiki/Immersive_ParaView) for some more information.
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2019, 8:07am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/plans-for-built-in-3d-connexion-support/1129/11 "2019-01-17T08:07:25Z")
Afaik the VR plugin does not build on windows. It must be fixable though.
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### Author:  [@cory.quammen](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/cory.quammen)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2019, 4:07pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/plans-for-built-in-3d-connexion-support/1129/12 "2019-02-05T16:07:12Z")
In addition, I believe to use it, you need to run a VRPN server, then launch ParaView, then connect to the VRPN server. There is some server configuration to set up as well. In principle, this could all be done in the VR plugin, but it would take some time to develop.
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2019, 9:10am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/plans-for-built-in-3d-connexion-support/1129/13 "2019-02-06T09:10:05Z")
The VRPN server have to be run indeed, but usually is provided with the device software.
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### Author:  [@cory.quammen](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/cory.quammen)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2019, 2:52pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/plans-for-built-in-3d-connexion-support/1129/14 "2019-02-06T14:52:40Z")
> [@mwestphal](#):
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> usually is provided with the device software.
Really? What devices include this software? Asking out of curiosity.
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2019, 3:24pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/plans-for-built-in-3d-connexion-support/1129/15 "2019-02-06T15:24:08Z")
It is provided with the zspace software. I may have wrongly generalized from that though.
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### Author:  [@cory.quammen](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/cory.quammen)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2019, 3:53pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/plans-for-built-in-3d-connexion-support/1129/16 "2019-02-06T15:53:28Z")
Interesting, I didn’t know that. I’m not aware that the same is true for 3DConnexion device, but I haven’t used one in quite a few years now.
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### Author:  [@lorak41](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/lorak41)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2019, 1:42pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/plans-for-built-in-3d-connexion-support/1129/17 "2019-02-10T13:42:55Z")
Do you have this plugin compiled on macOS 10.14 and Paraview 5.6 by any chance?
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### Author:  [@jkulesza](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/jkulesza)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2019, 2:26pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/plans-for-built-in-3d-connexion-support/1129/18 "2019-02-11T14:26:20Z")
@lorak41 I do not.
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### Author:  [@Frisb98](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Frisb98)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2019, 6:59am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/plans-for-built-in-3d-connexion-support/1129/19 "2019-05-31T06:59:54Z")
Is the plugin available to add to the standard windows installation, I cannot find it on the downloads page?
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2019, 8:14am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/plans-for-built-in-3d-connexion-support/1129/20 "2019-05-31T08:14:04Z")
It should be available in windows. You do not see it ?
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