[x3d-public] X3D Wikipedia page

[GPU Group]

If doing history, perhaps an explicit HISTORY SECTION, with dates / eras.
Early era
SGI - Cosmo Player
Flux
Cortona

Boom era
Freewrl
Vivaty (Flux II)
Instant Player
Octaga
H3DViewer
Bitmanagement
...
Consolidation and specialization era
- x3dom
- x_ite
- view3dscene
- freewrl

My history with web3d:
After my career in photogrammetry petered out I applied for a job at
Electronic Arts game studio, thinking my hard-core algorithm skills would
be in demand. I was rejected (they didn't say it but too old for culture).
I taught a course in game programming for a few months. Then landed a
project job developing an industrial training simulator, using Cortona and
its ISA editor (which had great routing diagrams and utility nodes -
imagine programming almost entirely in 2 routing diagrams for 8 months --
it was massive). Cortona used vrml format - first I heard of it, about 2006.
Then I found Flux about that time, and contacted its owner to suggest
making it opensource. He said maybe he should, he'd think about it.  I
found it was opensource a while later and took a snapshot, before it was
pulled. I did a 'historical virtual tour' of a town using Flux.
https://sites.google.com/site/airdriehistoricaltour/
Then about 2009 I found freewrl which was for linux and OSX, with friendly
and chatty developers. 6 months later I had it working in windows. And I
found out how bad it was compared to Cortona and Flux But opensource,
cross-platform, and improvable. A decade later freewrl is near end-of-life,
but somehow I keep it going.
-Doug

On Thu, Mar 23, 2023 at 2:53 PM GPU Group <gpugroup at gmail.com> wrote:

> A look back in time, lots of dead and archived links.
> Links and references could be refreshed to be relevant to someone new.
> ":See Also" section - could be eliminated or pared down, and some moved to
> references indirectly through web3d.org pages that expand on the topic
> - for example in "See Also" there are links to Blaxxun, Freewrl (stub
> link), Flux (archival, with no active download link)
> - instead a link to web3d browser comparison page would show current /
> active development.
> -Doug
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 23, 2023 at 2:18 PM Anita Havele <anita.havele at web3d.org>
> wrote:
>
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X3D
>>
>> The X3D Wikipedia page may need updates. This page has "semi-protected"
>> status, which means edits are moderated.
>>
>> As a community we are asking  for your input on how best to make X3D's
>> description accurate and current.
>>
>> All feedback is welcome!
>>
>> We'll be discussing this briefly at the X3D Workign Group
>> <https://www.web3d.org/working-groups/x3d> meeting tomorrow 3/24/23.
>>
>> --
>> Best regards,
>> Anita-Havele
>> Executive Director, Web3D Consortium www.web3d.org
>> Phone: +1 248 342 7662http://www.web3d.org/havele
>>
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