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Re: Why 3D Redux?

• To: "Bullard, Claude L \(Len\)" <clbullar@i...>,"'James Landrum'" <james.landrum@n...>
• Subject: Re: Why 3D Redux?
• From: "Bob Foster" <bob@o...>
• Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 19:19:11 -0500
• Cc: "'Bill Kearney'" <wkearney@i...>,"Rick Jelliffe" <ricko@a...>,"XML Developers List" <xml-dev@l...>
• References: <15725CF6AFE2F34DB8A5B4770B7334EE022DC593@h...>

From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...>
> Here is a VRML example that integrates data displays with
> real time animation, points of view, etc. as a means of
> illustrating a historical event.  In this case, the world's
> first manned spaceflight by Yuri Gagarin. April 12, 1961.  Note
> this is an accurate portrayal right down to the ejection from
> the capsule, a bit that many people don't know about and a
> valid reason at the time for refusing to award them the
> world prize (technically, the pilot was required to land
> in the ship) had it been known then.
>
> http://www.parallelgraphics.com/gagarin/

Don't know if you intended it, but this is a good illustration to me why 3D
isn't more widely used. When I tried to access this
(http://www.parallelgraphics.com/vrml/gagarin2/3d/index.html) in Mozilla
1.1, exactly nothing happened. When I tried in Explorer 6.0.2600, I got a
request to ok a download of some software, which I did, and then...exactly
nothing happened.

How is it again that VRML triumphed over Microsoft?

Bob Foster

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