VRML meeting at Interactive 3D Graphics Symposium

Don Brutzman ([email protected])
Tue, 11 Apr 1995 00:46:41 -0700 (PDT)

We had a very positive & enthusiastic VRML birds of a feather meeting at
the Interactive 3D Graphics Symposium tonight. Over 50 folks showed up
(out of 250 at the conference). Everyone was pretty excited. We saw
SGI's WebSpace browser, and NetPower had one running under Windows.
More demos will be given over the next 2 days including WebOOGL from
the U. of Minnesota Geometry Center, and Tecate from the San Diego
Supercomputer Center. There is a lot of stuff already at the VRML
Repository (http://www.sdsc.edu/vrml).

Gavin Bell of SGI had a bunch of good things to say. Chris Hall of
NetPower had an excellent demo. Tamara Munzner, Len Wanger, Dave
Nadeau, Rikk Carey, Kevin Goldsmith and a bunch of other folks all
contributed to the discussion. I urged folks there to post their own
questions and answers from the group discussion to this list.

I apologize if anyone was tuned in to MBone to watch/listen. The demo
room wasn't set up to multicast a group of that size. The number of
people in the room falls somewhere between how many would come for free beer
or for free money... Clearly there is a LOT of enthusiasm and curiosity!
I recommend that preparations be made at future VRML meetings (SIGGRAPH etc.)
to have MBone support so folks elsewhere can listen & interact.

Much of the discussion was about behaviors and network issues. There
are a lot of issues to be explored. I for one will be glad when
people on this list can try various browsers on various sites. Much of
the vagueness in our dialogue will disappear & we will be able to look
past 1.0 towards 2.0 in a coherent way.

all the best, Don 

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