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

["John Carlson" <john.carlson3@sbcglobal.net>]

> 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...

Well, I would use Adobe if it worked on my computer.  Yes, I have acroread 7
The only good X3D viewer on Linux, IMHO, is Octaga.  With good meaning
that it shows most of my files with acceptable performance.

The Java applet looked pretty good, but it was horribly slow.  How do the
PDFs compare?  Do you use JOGL in the Meson Applet?

Also, one may get more accurate numbers on google if you use

filetype:x3d       etc
as part of your query.    The numbers look pretty even between VRML and XML
encodings of X3D, hovering around 32,000 for each

John


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