3D web, finally?
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- Nairn0
Fair enough, zarkonite - but your initial post was vague enough for me to justifiably presume you were merely skirting through with some idiotic oversimplification.
Your points about the benefits of competition and evolution-from- proprietary techniques are generally fair enough too - though we're talking about a tech whose competitive race was won years ago. OpenGL is the dominant open standard for current, established 3D tech, so it's pointless to reinvent things when no discernible benefit can be derived.
Where 3D's concerned, The Race is hotting up again with the opportunities multiple cores afford, such as physics and ray tracing libraries. These features, however, are obviously well off the web yet, so now the time for consolidation and agreement.
The 3D Race on the web needs to move on and hot up with services and appliance innovation - not by continuing to dick around with the basics.