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+1.0.0 (2019-12-09)
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+First public *stable* release
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+Accompanies our paper submission Tschopp, Florian, et al. "VersaVIS: An Open Versatile Multi-Camera Visual-Inertial Sensor Suite." arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.02469 (2019).
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