Commenting on: Web3D Consortium Executive Director’s Update - Spring 2007
Today, bloggers are much more apt to blog on VRML rather than X3D, and all too frequently, they bash VRML, usually the VRML of our history, not the X3D work we have going on today. Knash and bash away. VRML is a part of our history, for better or worse. VRML taught Web3D and it’s members lessons about 3D language and formats, archivability, and even basic presentation of 3D rendering techniques. It STILL exists today as probably the most popular (and maybe most reviled?) 3D file format for the web. From the glass half full perspective, we learned a…
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Amazing the revival of X3D - maybe it is the tenacity of the group or maybe it is that the world if finally catching up to understanding that 3D can be a mainstream, as well as a niche way to experience and visualize information and interactions (e.g. social)
Whats wrong with flying butterflies??
vrml has some perfect fish but I have yet to see
a really nice vrml butterfly.
you web3d x3ders are trying to be too realistic and have
lofty ideals. you should not leave behind consumer
type 3d.
Nothing is wrong with flying butterflies. Or nets for that matter.
I’m chatting up a model of clients with multiSpeak servers of standard services. That enables differences in rendering models and behavioral support by clients without pushing any of them off the boat. The question then is, is that realistic technically whether it is or not politically. Politics are about will. On the other hand, only money matters. Still, most pundits don’t talk about real-time 3D systems in terms of services clients and that is how the other 99.9999 per cent of the web works: feeds and web services.
So what services does a flying butterfly need?
What would your avatar think about you if it was reading your blog feeds?
A site has a personality. We can express that using multi-selects and option boxes, or an avatar can ask questions. The site personality is not simply about content but the kinds of questions a site asks.
I agree with the butterflies thing. If we are having fun with this, we stay strangely attracted. Then the three body chaos problem is just perturbation and any three body orbit is perturbing.
Amazing the revival of X3D --
uh, what revival? what happened to VRML? where is the x3d metaverse?
heck can you list five x3d sites that
arent made by people who developed x3d?
does anyone outside of here know what x3d is?
no, no its not xbox.
meanwhile here are some real headlines--
Game Designer Mizuguchi and Japanese Agency to Create Virtual Tokyo
(secondlife)
100 Major Brands in Second Life.
There are at least five companies devoted to world building in
Second Life. In real world web3d IS second life. Just like human
beings think the computer IS windows. who in the hell cares
about Linux?
Meanwhile, yawn, so boring x3d.
This is x3d’s headlines--
Now accepting content for the 2007 Web3D SDK!
X3D Developers welcome to enter COLLADA Refinery Conditioner Programming Contest
Can you translate that into english?
I dont care about academic appliccations because I never see them.
I would like to see corporate type applications, but i never see
them. Okay at least I want to see some normal, human
oriented world, but.... I never see them.(well beyond the 25 or
so sites out of a billion websites)
If Second Life is metropolis downtown, X3d is an old
deserted cowboy town.
Perhaps I am in the wrong place. I want web3d to be fun
FIRST, academic and useful and profitable second.
ANd as you have demonstrated by your content and news items,
your focus is boring.
my puter is still too old too run second life. when
i upgrade and join the human race, I can’t wait
to play around in it and be a part of the future.
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