Ben,<br> I would only guess that the main reason for a Flash version is to lower the barriers to entry for those that don't like downloading plug-ins. The "download a plug-in" is a big killer for most virtual world companies. Vivaty is going for tween and teen girls, dont know how many are mac users in that demographic. Again I see it first as more a way to get people past that barrier of getting a plug-in, second for the bonus of that small audience of mac users and run the app cross platform. I give them mad props for enticing people with a lite version. Hopefully the experience with their platform will get users hooked for the X3D player download. We need more of those out there.<br>
<br>IMHO<br><br>Damon<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 1:29 AM, Ben Francis <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mail@tola.me.uk">mail@tola.me.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I was very disappointed to read [1] that Vivaty has felt it necessary to shoe-horn a stripped-down version of their Vivaty Scenes service into Flash in order to achieve cross-platform support. I've made a blog post [2] and comment on their blog asking what could have been achieved if the engineering effort required to achieve this hack had instead been diverted to supporting Unix/Linux based implementations of X3D.<br>
<br>Regards<br><br>Ben<br><br>1. <a href="http://blog.vivaty.com/2009/09/22/vivaty-lite-in-flash" target="_blank">http://blog.vivaty.com/2009/09/22/vivaty-lite-in-flash</a> <br>2. <a href="http://www.tola.me.uk/blog/2009/09/22/vivaty_lite" target="_blank">http://www.tola.me.uk/blog/2009/09/22/vivaty_lite</a><br clear="all">
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