Re: [External] Streams in VRML

Jeff Sonstein ([email protected])
Tue, 20 Jun 95 08:48 PDT


suggestionP if html browsers and vrml browsers are able to register with
each other, and if vrml browsers can pass on to the html browser any
WWWInline.name for "playing" var/a> ntation problems may
be reduced.

example: I am experim>nting with uses of the RealAudio format, because squeeze a second of decent voice-grade audio into about 1k of file-space.
When on> enters the vrmLab, I would like for a WWWInline containing a .ra
file reference to result in the played to the end-user while they are cruising around in the to point out things to notice in the physical structure of a particularly
interesting.

example: I would like to be able to bury a "us messagmailto:">mailto:" in an object, so the
same functionality (point and click up for you to fill out with comm>nts and suggestions.

and so on...

just a thought about the generalization of "foreign" types of files without
either burdening the end-user with configuring yet another piece software or burdening the browser-coder with yet another set of apps to deal with directly.

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New College of California
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