Re: [www-vrml] Re: [x3d-public] Web3D Zeitgeist - most popular format, one year on.

[Joshua Smith <jesmith@kaon.com>]

On Sep 27, 2005, at 2:29 AM, John Carlson wrote:

> > Make standard web 3D as trouble free to use as a normal web page and
> > then there will be a wider adoption. As long as installation is also
> > relatively simple.
>
> My prediction:  Microsoft will win the Web 3D war.

My prediction, nobody will "win" the Web 3D war, because:
1) There is no web 3D war;
2) Like the "browser war", it looked like MS won, and now they're 
starting to lose ground... these things never end.

However, if you're placing bets, I think the smart money is on Adobe 
taking the lead as the web 3D content delivery platform of choice.  The 
response we've gotten from customers for our new 3D PDF offerings is 
amazing.  Marketing folks REALLY like PDF, and the REALLY REALLY like 
interactive 3D content in those PDFs.  (For some cool examples, look at 
http://www.kaon.com/3DPDF.html ; for a commercial deployment, see 
http://www.sun.com/nc/05q3/products/x4100.jsp )

Sure would have been cool if Adobe had adopted X3D instead of U3D.  Oh 
well...

-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

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