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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Ben</span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Thanks for the report. It must have
been tough to sit on that one.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>The ball is in Google’s court.
The ISO standard is there to implement or not, but be ready for certification
tests that determine conformance in markets that require it as proof of
submission for a proposal.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>The technology is almost irrelevant.
The content representation and business rules are the cost items
because those are human costs. Tool costs and training are the drivers,
so most X3D companies have these ready now or are using Blender (Free but not
for timid) or Maya (not Cheap But Not Turkey) or any of the various free
and shareware editors. Others are using SketchUp.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>The question is for all the noise, in what
ways does the O3D scene graph improve on the X3D scene graph and the VRML97
scene graph?</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>len</span></font></p>
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<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>From:</span></b> x3d-public-bounces@web3d.org
[mailto:x3d-public-bounces@web3d.org] <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>On
Behalf Of </span></b>Ben Francis<br>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'>Dear all,</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>I've been dying to talk about this since last summer
when I joined the trusted testers programme, but the public release has finally
arrived. Google has <a
href="http://o3d.blogspot.com/2009/04/toward-open-web-standard-for-3d.html"
target="_blank">released</a> an Open Source JavaScript API for creating
interactive 3D graphics in the browser called <a
href="http://code.google.com/apis/o3d/" target="_blank">O3D</a>. It is
currently a browser plugin </span></font><font size=1 color="#353535"
face=Arial><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#353535'>for
Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, and Chrome that works on
Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux - but Google ultimately would like to
see native support in browsers.</span></font> </p>
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