Commenting on: One 3D Standard to Rule Them All?
The world is finally starting to pay wide-scale attention to 3D! From Google Earth, to Second Life, to 3D PDFs, to COLLADA, to scores of new uses and implementations of X3D, 3D visualization has finally reached critical mass. But while it is exciting that there are so many different technology options, how do we decide which solution to use? Is there one standard that fits all markets?...
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I think theres room for a handful of formats. (And fewer network protocols.)
On the web everything is pretty much based on HTTP. Then you have one dominant data format, HTML. Followed by several extra formats like Flash, various movie formats, then to a lesser extent stuff like SVG. I can imagine something like that happening with 3D graphics, with clients supporting various data formats for various purposes…
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