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Hello. I am new to this list and found the
information help full (I would like total number of sites held in the
database from yr2000 vs amount in yr2005, if the figure increases then I
would expect the VRML amount increase by the same persentage - however its clear
that VRML increased by more then it should of - but what would I
know)...
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Again my many thanks again for the
information.
Jason Robinson
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Sent: Monday, September 26, 2005 11:49
PM
Subject: Re: [x3d-public] Web3D Zeitgeist
- most popular format, one year on.
For some reason, these absurd exercises really get under my
skin...
In August 2004 I
was wondering about the relative popularity of various Web3D formats. No
hard data was available. So I turned as one does in such a situation, to
Google.
Gee, let's see.
I wonder what the "relative popularity" of various viruses are? Blaster: 6.5M,
Netsky: 0.6M, Kournikova: 2.3M; there you have it, Blaster is much more
"popular" than Kournikova...
Here's what your numbers say to
me...
1) Of the free formats that students and hobbyists have
lots of questions and really bad demos, 10-year-old VRML has a lot more
references than 4-year-old X3D. What a shock. [[You should go visit the top
100 hits for VRML, by the way. You'll quickly see that it is a wasteland of
ancient demos, dead links, and pages that have absolutely nothing to do with
VRML (hit #6... Computer Associates! huh?)]]
2) As google & friends
continue to index more obscure parts of the web, the number of hits on
everything continues to increase.
3) When you search for the name of an
obscure underlying technology (U3D) you get a lot fewer hits than you get if
you search for the extremely popular formats that use that technology ("3D
PDF").
If you really want to know what technology people use to deploy
web 3D, it is a much harder exercise than some silly googlewhacking.
For example, search google for site:dell.com 3d and you'll see that we
have created dozens, maybe hundreds, of interactive web 3D experiences at
dell. However, because Dell is a commercial enterprise with their own branding
to worry about, you are going to have to dig to find out what technology made
that 3D appear (for example, right click on the applet). Google is
hard-pressed to realize that Kaon's technology produced those
pages.
The same would be true if you went crawling the web looking for
Viewpoint 3D or Cult 3D or Shockwave 3D or any other 3D format that is
actually used in the commercial web.
Despite the 4 million hits you
found, I'm hard pressed to think of a single example of VRML being used in a
commercial application...
-Joshua Smith
CTO/Alpha
Geek
jesmith@kaon.com
Kaon Interactive Inc.
Tel. (978) 823-0111
x111
http://www.kaon.com/
Kaon Interactive
Web-Enabled Sales
Solutions for Product Companies
On Sep 25, 2005, at 11:27 AM, Viveka
Weiley wrote:
Hi all,
I've repeated my survey of google hits for the
major Web3D formats.
The results surprised
me...
http://www.karmanaut.com/virtuality/zeitgeist/
Regards,
V.
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Viveka
Weiley, Karmanaut. http://www.karmanaut.com
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