Raver1975 pointed out that the PointCloud was broken ! I looked into and found a simple naming issue - its fixed, but some other thing I noticed was the abismal performance of the actual display. The root cause of that known issue is it currently uses Java3D which has been a dead project for years.
The new build server is now building MRL ! Additionally, there is a new status bar at the bottom of the GUI which is now beginning to be utilized as a display for important information, warnings, and errors. Quicker than looking through logs !
New Build Server !
Or at least new operating system - now Ubuntu 12.10. It used to be a very old Fedor system, so getting the hang of Ubuntu is going to take a little while. Right now I'm rebuilding X11 with an amazing crazy script which uses all processors to do the compile. This will by my 5th attempt since it overheated and shutdown on all previous attempts. Now I have a cup of water to cool it down.
Tinhead, the super-vampire robot builder has created a raspberry pi bot which will stream off video from a webcam mounted on the pi to his PC. The PC will consume the video stream and process it in OpenCV then call back to the Pi bot control messages. Distributed Robotics Rock !