Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 26th Dec 2005 17:09 UTC, submitted by anonymous
"Once upon a time, 3D for the Web promised to be as easy as building a Web page. Unfortunately, 3D - even simple 3D - is more complex than displaying scrolling text and pictures. Each VRML vendor implemented a different subset of the spec, and it never gained traction. And so 3D on the Web faded away. Or did it? It turns out that VRML lives on in its XML flavor, X3D, which has grown to encompass VRML's siblings H-Anim (Humanoid Animation) and GeoVRML."
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Member since:2005-11-10
New techonologies never ever get used right.
DHTML came along - we got exploding pizzas, popup ads, javascript rollovers from doom and everything that plagued the web 1996-onwards
Flash came along - we got ads with sound and shoot the monkey
If 3D arrives, we will have to live through five years of abuse by that technology for a few gems now and again that can be done now, with Java.
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2005-07-06
Seems that you think of it only as of navigation coponents of a website. But navigation isn't everything, although it's crucial.
Take e. g. a photo of a notebook or a jewel. Wouldn't it be nice if you could view it from all angles, not just from one, just click and rotate it as desired. Might not be a bandwidth saver, but customers would surely like it.
There might be other uses I didn't think of right now.