To The Artists and Content Owners
Posted by Len Bullard on November 16th 2006 • Permalink
VRML and X3D don’t suck. If we don’t get that, we suck.
Posted by Len Bullard on November 15th 2006 • Permalink
The Quiet Tipping Point of Commercial Standards
Posted by Len Bullard on October 20th 2006 • Permalink
3D capable <canvas> HTML Tag by Opera & Mozilla
Posted by Aaron Bergstrom on October 11th 2006 • Permalink
Let’s not Get over-hyped about AjaX3D!
Posted by Joe D Williams on October 6th 2006 • Permalink
Essentially, the future of embed gives you the equivalent of the animated .gif option for X3D. Everything interactive you want to do in your scene has got to be in the scene already. Once its loaded, it must be treated as a complete object with no access to its internal properties. But Hey, that is OK, because the .x3d object, like the animated .gif object, can do anything it wants as long as it stays in it's container.
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Do we have to use an Extended DOM for Ajax3D?
Posted by Joe D Williams on September 6th 2006 • Permalink
If it won't work cross these two browsers using the simplist way, let's try the next simplist way by leveraging Tony's Ajax3D.org tutorials to get this done. I think we can predict that if we keep it simple Ajax, we can get it to work in both IE and Ff.
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Posted by Len Bullard on August 31st 2006 • Permalink
Ajax3D offers a solid beginning for server-side event-driven logic combined with a client-side rich 3D GUI in X3D. What we need in addition, is a commercial library of drag and drop components for building applications. The 3D Generation is coming of working age and starting to buy. I like free plug-ins like everyone else, but the competitive-edge is in the latest and greatest. Companies beyond the Consortium members need to support the X3D formats too. X3D and SAI have to be to real-time 3D what wav files and VST are to music.
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AJAX3D - cross-browser html object how to
Posted by Joe D Williams on August 25th 2006 • Permalink
Wouldn't it be lovely if we didn't have to concern ourselves with the html? So far, it remains Not Possible to present a single html object tag that provides sufficient guidance for both Firefox and IE, for instance.
The way to show active content using X3D hosted on a typical html/xhtml web browser is to use simple ecmascript to evaluate a basic browser capability check and generate a specific object element based on browser object implementation preferences and capabilities.
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What’s hot in 3D today?: Cartography, mobile, medical imaging and social networking
Posted by Rita Turkowski on August 21st 2006 • Permalink
The hot things in 3D today seems to be anything dealing with 3D cartography, mobile, medical imaging and social networking. All of these were strongly represented at our SIGGRAPH talks. All of these areas present unique challenges and opportunities for X3D's advancement as more than an ISO standard, but as a popular real world solution to 3D communications.
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X3D COLLADA SmackDown! - a contrived spectacle?
Posted by Rita Turkowski on August 15th 2006 • Permalink
Recently there has been a lot of conversation on the public mailing lists about COLLADA and X3D. As is usual with standards discussions, there is an attempt to create a "which is better" division - kind of a World Wrestling Entertainment Smackdown between COLLADA and X3D. But I think that spectacle is artificially contrived and created in part by confusion about what goals and markets X3D and COLLADA actually target.
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