3D web, finally?
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- homeostatic0
There are some amazing designers on Second Life, if you haven't been there in awhile—also a large upsurge in non US users.
- janne760
fuck the web. why make it even harder for us?
- mikotondria30
I think 3d will becomes exactly as important as sound is on the web.
- You mean like LastFM, iTunes, numerous multimedia sites, or do you mean like a sarccy answer?Nairn
- Really though, I think 3D could give non-music sound relevance to the web experience.Nairn
- Yes, I even love the baby steps of papervision, done a couple sites using that. :)mikotondria3
- ukit0
Eventually you will be able to upload a pic of your ex girlfriend or favorite model and have sex with them
- ..while a small number of guys trawl the bars and clubs that seem to be entirely filled with exes and models...mikotondria3
- 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.
- janne760
when is your next lecture or seminar, Nairn? :)
- skt0
3d web? finally?
i was making vrml sites a decade ago... it was like you were there.
- VRML never took off as a standard. Little general awareness about it either.ETM
- Did you actually use vrml? The market was dead before it'd even begun with that one.Nairn
- yep... back in uni... quite good fun to work with.skt
- vrml sucksuberdesigner
- anything at alluberdesigner
- typist0
will 2advanced change to 3dvanced?
- Muahahhaa...fyoucher1
- You better trademark that shit fast.duckofrubber
- 3advanced.com Premium Domain price $2,388.00version3
- dMullins0
Eventually you will be able to upload a pic of your ex girlfriend and give them virtual crabs.
- Horp0
All this technology stuff is so bewildering. I'm reading 'bear', 'fruits' 'have legs', 'Roll on' etc, and all I can imagine is a gay panda putting anti-perspirant on its thighs.
- Bender0
VRML?
- twokids0
going to be a lot of terrible 3D sites there only because someone thought it needed to be 3D
- Nairn0
OK, to stave off any more mentions - I'm old enough to remember VRML when it first came around, and was disappointed to see it disappear. Logical, of course - it was well before its time of relevance.
The difference here being that 'most' contemporary internet-viewing devices have some form of 3D accelaration. User interaction has begun to reach maturity and tech awareness is widespread.
So, this is by no means the first attempt - but with the time, the players and the intent in place, this is going to be the one that matters.