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

[Joshua Smith <jesmith@kaon.com>]

> > (hit #6... Computer Associates!  huh?)]]
>
> VRML's links with CA are broad and deep: CA was for a long while the 
> principal download site for Cosmo Player; they had acquired Viewpoint 
> Datalabs, a source for superior quality 3D models and a brilliant 
> little program called LiveArt which (through Nendo and perhaps a trip 
> somewhere along the line through AccuTrans 3D) could import VRML 
> models; and it was the home of Cindy Ballreich, who produced a line of 
> low-polygon VRML models and a number of compelling e-commerce 
> solutions with VRML, including an app for Ticketmaster that let you 
> see how the stage would look from any seat in the house.
>
> Perhaps that was a slip of the pen.  Otherwise, I'm sure I'm not the 
> only one who's wondering why someone would be so vehement about 
> criticizing events and failures in a history he doesn't appear to 
> know.

Hey, unfair!  Of course I know that CA is responsible for the particle 
acceleration experiment that smashed Viewpoint Datalabs with 
MetaCreations and created a search toolbar / photo album company which 
no longer even mentions 3D in their analyst calls.

My point was that CA has been out of the VRML business for, what, maybe 
5 years, and they are listed as the #6 ranked page for VRML.

Your use of the word "history" is exactly my point.  The page I was 
criticizing was using google hit counts to gauge "popularity".  
Certainly there is no question that VRML has the most HISTORY on the 
web.  But that doesn't make it the most POPULAR format for web 3d.

-Joshua

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