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Foil 7 Current Developments in VRML Forum

From Televirtual Environments -- Technologies and Application SC95 Tutorial on Web Technologies -- December 4,95. by NPAC Team * See also color IMAGE
VRML Forum / mailing list led/moderated by Marc Pesce -- currently the most promising and dynamic body working on standards towards Televirtuality/Cyberspace.
Current problems after successful deployment of VRML 1.0:
  • 3D design issues are often mixed/confused with more general (and often more complex) distributed real-time collaboratory protocols
  • Forum too open to make executive decisions
Current suggested solution: design work is split into two parallel thrusts:
  • Developing a sequence of VRML 1.x releases with the focus on improving 3D design, better rendering support, sonification, video/dynamic texture streamlining and other new media challenges.
  • Strategic planning for VRML 2.0 (expected by mid '96?)_ that will support multiuser real-time collaboratory.

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