At 01:05 PM 5/13/99 -0700, Ehlis, Tobin wrote:
>I ran across something very interesting yesterday.
>At www.hypercosm.com there's a new technology specifically designed for
>web-based 3d interactivity.
>It features an entirely new, OO, platform independent language called OMAR
>that initially looks very similar to java with built-in support for quickly
>creating 3d interactive environments.
Actually, it's not that new. An earlier version, Megahedron, was
published by my company and launched at Siggraph in 1996, and the
two developers of it tried publishing it on their own (as "Microcosm")
several years before that. Hypercosm's OMAR is the latest incarnation.
We're blowing out Megahedron CDs at $20 each, if you want one, see
<http://www.threedee.com/>. There's a free demo available, too.
Or I'd trade a CD for anything of comparable value. We didn't see
much success with Megahedron. It was hard to sell yet another
language, even though it could do cool stuff.
There's a dozen or two companies with 3D-related browser plug-ins.
As in the case of VRML, they're all struggling with chicken-or-egg
problems relating to the creation of content before broad appeal,
and how you wrap a business model around that. Java 3D strikes
me as a different situation.
- John
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