Editing TrueSpace (section)

== History ==
The company was founded in 1985 by [[Roman Ormandy]]. A prototype 3D video animation package for the [[Amiga|Amiga Computer]] led to the incorporation of Octree Software in 1986. From 1988 to 1992, Octree released several software packages including Caligari1, Caligari2, Caligari Broadcast, and Caligari 24. Caligari wanted to provide inexpensive yet professional, industrial video and corporate presentation software.{{Citation needed|date=October 2023}} In 1993 Octree Software moved from New York to California and became known as Caligari Corporation. 

In 1994 trueSpace 1.0 was introduced on the [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]] platform. In 1998 an employee inadvertently left a copy of the trueSpace 4.0 sourcecode on the company website's public FTP server. The source code was released to the internet by the piracy release group REVOLT.<ref>{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cA3qL9PBR0kC&q=truespace+4+source+code&pg=PA51 |title = Software Piracy Exposed|isbn = 9780080489735|last1 = Honick|first1 = Ron|date = 2005-10-07| publisher=Elsevier }}</ref>
In early 2008, the company was acquired by [[Microsoft]] and trueSpace 7.6 was released for free.<ref name="arsfree">{{Cite web|url=https://arstechnica.com/journals/microsoft.ars/2008/07/24/result-of-the-caligari-acquisition-truespace-7-6-goes-free|title=Result of the Caligari acquisition: trueSpace 7.6 goes free|author=Emil Protalinski|date=July 24, 2008|publisher=Ars Technica|accessdate=2008-07-25}}</ref>