I finally got WebSpace to install here at Hofstra and quickly pulled up
the SGI All In One Booth .wrl file. Unfortunatly moving through the world
was very slow and jerky. I first ran it on an Indy PC (R4000) then on an
Indigo R4000XZ which is usually very fast. The SGI booth was ok on the
Indigo but I went to Lightscape (http://www.lightscape.com/models.html)
and while these files are beautiful to look at moving through them is
very slow, even at low detail. I started to think, how will this run on
my 488DX/33 with 8 Megs and Windows 95 Beta? Have any changes been made
to the algoritms to improve performance on PC's and Power Macs? Also
those of you running WebSpace, what kind of SGI's are you using? What
kind of performance are you getting?
Please don't take this message the wrong way, I think WebSpace and VRML
are great, and are definetly the future of the Web, but to make it
practical for such things are virtual malls we will need extremly fast
computers.
Henry Wagner U "and you can dream, so dream out loud" - Bono
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