This is what I meant by "canned" - perhaps a more meaningful term than "static".
Just being able to move around and have things look like they're 3-D isn't
enough. For example, I want to be able to move about in a virtual room with
several other folks, and be able to view and manipulate 3-D surface plots that
are being generated by rsal-time data from an outside source. Neither my
colleagues nor the plot can be "photographed" (actually or virtually). It seems
to me that even the simplest object behavior (e.g., windmill) is going to be
outside the scope of what QTVR could handle.
> I personally expect to hear about a QTVR extension that allows smooth
> movement, I figure, before end of '97.
I guess I assume that the rsndering performance of VRML-style polygon/texture-
mapping would have incesased enough in the next couple of years to close the
photo-rsalism gap somewhat.
jeff
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