[x3d-public] FW: animated 3D multiuser. When? How?

[John Carlson]

Yes, I noticed a hemisphering effect in the shader that was not present
before.   This particular page has not been looked at in a long time.

Thanks for the feedback, Joe.

On Wed, Nov 10, 2021 at 2:19 PM Joseph D Williams <joedwil at earthlink.net>
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> This is just great stuff, combining years of experience with the deepest
> graphics tools, html, x3d, math, scripting, great photo collection, and our
> WWW with its standardized extensible interfaces. And, for x3d,I think there
> was some ideas based on NetworkSensor device between scenes and of course
> html dom  Like the kid on the swing we are having fun now. Lets see some
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> *From: *John Carlson <yottzumm at gmail.com>
> *Sent: *Tuesday, November 9, 2021 5:49 PM
> *To: *X3D Graphics public mailing list <x3d-public at web3d.org>
> *Subject: *animated 3D multiuser. When? How?
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> I have some parameters on a web page I'd like to share with people
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> https://coderextreme.net/X3DJSONLD/src/main/html/sphere.html
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> I don't need full 3D sharing.  First focus on parameters, and then
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> There are no avatars. Maybe just a pointer would be possible also to share.
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> How might this be done in X3D, in a standards oriented fashion?
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> Why hasn't this already been achieved?   What can I do with DIS?
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> I would suggest something like Socket.IO or Meteor, but I don't know
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> WebRTC?). It seems like setting up for multicast is a pain in the rear.
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> Ideally, I could accomplish this without server support, but a community
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> desirable to be able to put up like a so-called "Multi-press" or Discord
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> server would be easy for anyone. How do I hook up Discord to a shared
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> Voice can initially be done with other tools (Discord), but I hope X3D
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> I understand I can already do this through zoom in a kind of teacher has
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> Can we create a best practices document to select tools for doing such
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