of course it needs funds but i think you put too much
emphasis on releasing code without monitoring its quality
is my 100USD
gonna make that much of a difference?
there is a tonne of resources in this community if given a chance would help
the consortium
much more worth
than the $100usd per head you want to extract
for
instance
if you opened up your test suites to community
involvement the nessecary monies involved would drop
dramatically
thats good business sense isnt
it?
>> more often these solutions are market and financially
driven.. not driven by the force of vr itself, sad isnt it?
No - I don't believe it is sad - the way to make VR
happen is through successful products and companies
[Clayton
Cottingham]
vrml/x3d has had a significantly decent amount of time to deliver on this
three fold......
if the
consortium would have heeded my advice a while ago , a consortium sponsored
reference platform could have been delivered by now
what
makes a successful product? consumer acceptance! dont see that happening with
vrml/x3d
the
more people try and fail with vrml ..the worse the consumer faith in it and im
talking consumers , not develpers and programers
>> Neil, as the president of the web3d consortium it falls to
you to provide some sort of leadership in this area
Yes - that's what I am engaged in here :)
But I am not a application developer - it is applications that will catalyze the
market need. I believe the leadership that the Consortium needs is to
patiently prepare the background infrastructure for great apps to take root in.
Glamorous? No. Necessary? I believe so - that's why I
am still here.
[Clayton Cottingham]
the
first step in leading is always listening. its also about putting aside certain
personal feelings about the subject that you may or may not have and seriously
wiegh the situation and doing what right for VRML/X3D not this company or that
one, but for the language itself
the
language is where the true wealth is not the applications that may or may not be
spawned
lots
of good suggestions in here
if you
actually take them to heart you could drastically improve the
situation
Thanks
for listening