Already!

1/12th into the new year and here is what you may have missed so far:

• We have a new stable release out, see: vvvv gamma 6.7
• Latest previews include preview of a new feature “Snapping” that helps with clean patching
• A first preview is out for VL.Devices.Orbbec supporting their latest Gemini and Femto devices. Development sponsored by Supply and Demand
• We made good progress on the previously announced avateering front. Still some patches to go though…
• The website got a much needed re-unification. You’ll now find forum, store, thegraybook under the same unified header. Next: Bringing back user/edu/company profiles

And also the 26th worldwide online meetup happened with many great presentations!

Learning vvvv

Since last months review, we’ve added two new episodes of vvvvTv:

• S02 E05 Writing Nodes with C#
• S02 E06 Networking with MQTT

TobyK has added four new episods on to his VL.TK.AdventOfCode24

• Day 7: Brute Forcing Every Combo, Math Concat
• Day 8:Sampling Positions On a Line
• Day 9: Swapping Array Elements, MutableSortedList
• Day 10: An Agent That Can Spawn New Agents

Plus two more user tutorials:

• StreamDeck to vvvv in two nodes by seltzdesign
• Application Composition part 1 by antokhio

If you’re looking for live hands-on courses, here are your upcoming options:

• February 7: Wekinator – Gesture Control for Performance with Machine Learning

• From March 24: 12 session beginner to intermediate online course

Contributions

Many thanks to those of you who help complete vvvv with countless additions! For an overview of libraries available for vvvv start here.

We got a new one:

• VL.Ollama

And updates to the following:

• VL.Audio.VST
• VL.IO.MQTT
• VL.IO.WebSocket
• VL.IO.TCP
• VL.IO.NetMQ
• VL.IO.mDNS
• VL.IO.NDI
• VL.SpoutMonitor.HDE
• VL.SmallestCircle
• VL.Flex
• VL.Flex.Skia
• VL.Flex.ImGui
• VL.Bookmarks.HDE
• VL.Addons
• VL.OCIO
• VL.RichTextKit

Plus new entries in the forum’s work-in-progress section:

• 3D Line / Tube in geometry shader
• VL.Espace - a toolkit for spatial applications

Gallery

MonkeyBox by VJMonkeyman available as binary and source!

Shifting Selves - Registrazione schermo by Simone Martinotta

Jobs

• Always keep an eye on the vvvv job board
• There maybe some more on The Interactive & Immersive Job Board and dasauge.de
• If you need a vvvv specialist or are one yourself, check out this listing of vvvv specialists available for hire

That was it for January. Anything to add? Please do so in the comments!