Caligari Corporation

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{{Infobox company

| name = Caligari Corporation

| logo = Caligarilogo.jpg

| industry = software
animation

| founded = 1985

| founder = Roman Ormandy

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Caligari Corporation was founded in 1985 by Roman Ormandy. A prototype 3D video animation package for the Amiga Computer, which led to the incorporation of Octree Software was released in 1986.{{Cite web |date=2015-12-15 |title=Caligari Corporation |url=https://www.ithistory.org/db/companies/caligari-corporation |access-date=2023-08-30 |website=IT History Society |language=en}} From 1988 to 1992, Octree released several software packages including Caligari1, Caligari2, Caligari Broadcast, and Caligari 24. Ormandy wanted to provide inexpensive yet professional industrial video and corporate presentation software. 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 Windows platform. In early 2008, the company was acquired by Microsoft.{{Cite web |date=2013-02-25 |title=Microsoft - Caligari |url=https://www.corumgroup.com/transactions/microsoft-caligari |access-date=2023-08-30 |website=Corum Group |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Protalinski |first=Emil |date=2008-02-07 |title=Microsoft acquires trueSpace creator Caligari |url=https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2008/02/microsoft-acquires-caligari/ |access-date=2023-08-30 |website=Ars Technica |language=en-us}}

On 21 May 2009, Caligari announced that Microsoft would cease to provide support for Caligari trueSpace. The website and forums were affected, and some services ceased to operate from May 22, 2009.{{Cite web |last=Wong |first=Kenneth |date=2009-05-22 |title=Caligari Gets Ready to Shut its Doors |url=https://www.digitalengineering247.com/article/caligari-gets-ready-to-shut-its-doors |access-date=2023-08-30 |website=Digital Engineering |language=en}}