And on 3d PDF: At SIGGRAPH 05 I asked the Right
Hemisphere rep if they would support X3D.
His reponses:
1. "Do they have a spec?" (this was one full year after the spec was
released). He was flippant and irritating.
2. "Why not just use U3D which is already on millions of PC's?" Of
course, the answer was 'I'm not using U3D,
I'm using X3D, that's why', but he was a jerk about it.
Too bad. I like Deep Exploration. Doesn't sound like it will support
X3D any time soon, unless we get a letter-writing
campain going.
Dave A
Joshua Smith wrote:
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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