<div dir="ltr">Speaking VRML, in December I met with a manufacturer of 3D printers that wanted to switch from STL file formats (which I understand may have issues with polygon normals pointed in the opposite direction) to VRML.<div><br></div><div>Personally, I think they should have moved to X3D, but that's another issue.</div><div><br></div><div>Mitch</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 7:35 AM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cbullard@hiwaay.net" target="_blank">cbullard@hiwaay.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">It's a fascinating market from a historical perspective. Some small groups<br>
succeed by staying on the edge of the standard but essentially building<br>
proprietary mostly non interoperable model libraries. A handful of mostly<br>
proprietary engines consume mostly interoperable model libraries but render<br>
them in almost faithful but not quite faithful scenes. The artists are<br>
left to ride the churn or lose the investment in building the art. Meanwhile<br>
a new generation of hardware vendors create wholly non-interoperable systems<br>
of content and iron.<br>
<br>
Worlds without end and not enough profit to create and end to end marketplace, amen. Very successful corporations invest substantial resources and yet again<br>
and again are starved like Hannibal's armies and forced to sail back to Carthage without the prize. A standard said dead by market prophet after prophet is the only one still standing from the early years. VRML/X3D won't die.<br>
<br>
A market analyst should puzzle over this. A university graduate student should<br>
write a paper to answer the question: why does this market never congeal? There are survivors but no market winners. Why?<br>
<br>
len<br>
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Quoting Mitchell Williams <<a href="mailto:mitchellwi@google.com" target="_blank">mitchellwi@google.com</a>>:<br>
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Interesting article.<br>
<br>
I just attended the Silicon Valley Android Developers Meetup and they had a<br>
presentation on Google Glass to help children with autism. Ned Sahin,<br>
neuroscientist<br>
from Harvard (<a href="http://www.nedsahin.com/" target="_blank">http://www.nedsahin.com/</a>) discussed how they were using<br>
Glass, and that it's not exactly dead, just version 0.1 His project is at<br>
<a href="http://brain-power.com/" target="_blank">http://brain-power.com/</a><br>
<br>
As we know from Web 3D, technology evolves with many good concepts dead on<br>
the roadside, and others following in those trails blazed by those before<br>
it.<br>
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Mitch<br>
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On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 1:21 PM, Don Brutzman <<a href="mailto:brutzman@nps.edu" target="_blank">brutzman@nps.edu</a>> wrote:<br>
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[Original headline: "Broken Glass"]<br>
<br>
Style: Why Google Glass Broke<br>
<br>
by Nick Bilton, New York Times, FEB. 4, 2015<br>
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/05/style/why-google-glass-broke.html" target="_blank">http://www.nytimes.com/2015/<u></u>02/05/style/why-google-glass-<u></u>broke.html</a><br>
<br>
This is a story that involves lots of public intrigue, a futuristic<br>
</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">
wearable technology, a secret laboratory, fashion models, sky divers and an<br></span>
interoffice love triangle that ended a billionaire?s marriage. This is the<span class=""><br>
story of Google Glass.<br>
<br>
Before we begin, this is the part in the tale where I should probably<br></span>
explain what Google Glass is. Except, I don?t have to. Google Glass didn?t<span class=""><br>
just trickle out into the world. Instead, it exploded with the kind of fuss<br>
and pageantry usually reserved for an Apple iSomething.<br>
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[...]<br>
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all the best, Don<br>
--<br>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Mitch Williams</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div>Check out my book <span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">"<i>WebGL Hotshot</i>" available at:</span></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="https://www.packtpub.com/web-development/webgl-hotshot" target="_blank">https://www.packtpub.com/web-development/webgl-hotshot</a><br><div><br></div><div>310-809-4836 (outside line) </div></div></div></div></div>
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