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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>If we spend all our time on games, what will the workplace get? Expensive 3D tools?</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>What about schools?</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>John</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Sent from <a href="https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986">Mail</a> for Windows 10</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='border:none;padding:0in'><b>From: </b><a href="mailto:contact@wildpeaks.fr">Cecile Muller</a><br><b>Sent: </b>Wednesday, May 1, 2019 6:02 AM<br><b>To: </b><a href="mailto:x3d-public@web3d.org">X3D Graphics public mailing list</a><br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [x3d-public] Is there even a *case* for client-side 3D at all??</p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Hi Jon,</p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Just wanted to add a few things.</p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>It would be amiss to completely disregard gaming or the games industry,</p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>this is where a lot (most ?) of innovation in realtime 3D is coming from these days.</p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>VRML (and by extension X3D) are great and I still use VRML daily (among other formats),</p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>like I have for about 20 years, but from the point of view of someone who just came in 3D,</p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>it's understandable they might wonder considering it's not a widespread format anymore</p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>and not supported natively in the major 3D engines, plus it lacks some features </p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>that are quite standard (as in "expected", not "ISO standard") nowadays.</p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>And by the way, three.js doesn't really "use its own file format", there is a loader for a JSON format</p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>(just like there are loaders for many other formats) that just happen to be the fastest to load to the scenegraph</p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>because it's almost a mirror of its internal structure, but most people use classic file formats </p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>like OBJ, FBX, of glTF because it's a more convenient workflow.</p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Anyway, I'm going back lurking under my rock :)</p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Bye,</p></div></div></div></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal>Cecile</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>