The World Has Changed, and networked 3D has arrived. Big Consumer Electronics companies & Big Consumer Demand ...demands freedom... and we get it ... Nokia, Motorola, Sony, Sharp, IBM, Arm, AOL ... can, ... will ... ... liberate from us... from what we _" have to "_ use in the office... --- No longer --- are we held back by expensive, closed & proprietary -------------------- Desktop centric 1900's era technology. The Web, Linux, Java, VRML, ... open standards, competition & freedom ... liberate & empower us. __ Linux & Java __ in hand-held devices, TV set-top & game boxes and -------------------- other mobile & embedded devices deliver information, __ 3d games, __ 3d business applications, access to our data, access to our friends, - vision beyond-the-horizon, & new opportunities for power, profit & recreation. New Technology, New Player, New Money : 3D with Java3d ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | | navigate ... 3D-based virtual worlds by simply ... Built with | 100 % Pure Java ... can run on any operating systems such as | __ Windows, Unix, _ Linux _, and Mac, ___ ... next generation | personal platform that delivers revolutionary Internet browsing | http://www.gomid.com/sub/products/product.htm __ New Life for an Old Friend __ Cosmo is Reborn with New Help __ ------------------------------------------------------------------- | | the [ 3d VRML Viewer ] Cosmo codebase had been licensed ... | for development and free distribution as a 3D Browser product ... | | the plan is contribute to the Cosmo codebase by making it the | most standards-compliant and versatile 3D browser ... | | This is only possible if they are able to attract a great team of | CG / C++ / OGL / Networking / VRML / X3D programmers to ... | add some new spec stuff, implement X3D, and get [EMAIL PROTECTED] | aimed at VRML200x and Open Source ... [ and be compliant with and | complimentary to Web3d's own Open Source Java VRML Loaders ] | | I think this has great potential so I asked if I could help. | | [ -- Joe D. Williams, contributor, Web3D's X3D / VRML Loaders Group] | [ -- May 29, 2001, comp.lang.vrml, "Many Polygons & Few People" Thread] | http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&ic=1&th=b224e8d4ee135413 " Sharp to display Linux handholds ", By Bloomberg News ------------------------------------- May 23, 2001 | | Sharp will demonstrate prototypes of hand held computers | running on the __ Linux __ operating system next month in | the United States in a challenge to Palm and Microsoft on | their home turf. ... the prototypes will be displayed at the | JavaOne Conference ... June 4 to 8 in San Francisco. | | Sharp will be the first major hand held maker to introduce a | Linux OS-based device. Japan's largest hand held maker plans | to introduce the handholds to the U.S. and European markets | later this year amid growing competition at home ... | | Sharp is counting on __ Java __ - based applications to attract | global consumers to its palm-top devices. While it currently | has little presence abroad, Sharp grabbed a 36 percent share | in Japan's hand held market last year, followed by Palm and Casio | http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-200-6018256.html The PowerPC powers Apples, the GameCube Game Machine, Workstations, cable TV Boxes, and other embedded devices ... Java, Linux, VRML ... 3D. Arm powers Java, Linux, VRML, 3d ... in mobile & embedded devices. Sony Playstation 2 runs Mozilla / Netscape on the web, Java & Linux. Nokia, Motorola, Sun, Sony, IBM, AOL ... ~~ you ~~ ... use Java & Linux. If your VRML requires one ~~ ( * ANY * )~~ particular OS ... you have ... limited your mobility... taken the slow road... in the wrong direction. I do interactive 3d animation on the web ( & beyond ) with VRML,Linux&Java. _ 3D for the Web _ & Beyond ... with Java ( w&w/o hardware support ) ------------------ runs on the Web, Win-Lin-Mac & More: Web3d's H-Anim http://www.frontiernet.net/~imaging/java3d_and_vrml.html http://www.frontiernet.net/~imaging/H-Anim_Avatars.html The Revolution has arrived. How far are you ... behind the times ? -- Paul, Java Developer & Web Animator -- Having Fun. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Imaging the Imagined : Modeling with Math & a Keyboard" =========================================================================== To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff JAVA3D-INTEREST". For general help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help".
