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I was tinkering in that space in the mid-90s, and always felt the file format was a missed opportunity, and wasn't taking any of the lessons of HTML. What I wa

I was tinkering in that space in the mid-90s, and always felt the file format was a missed opportunity, and wasn't taking any of the lessons of HTML. What I wanted (but never built) was a semantic file format, something like: <room style="square" id="room1"> <wall direction=north> <picture frame="modern" src="http://foo.com/fancycat.jpg" /> </wall> <wall direction=south> <door room="room2" /> </wall> </room>

sien 3y ago
There was a company in Sweden that built a system that used VRML and extended like that where you could define what the nodes were and reference and re-use them. The system also enable Python to script behaviour. It also used the PHANToM for haptic feedback and used a 3D stereoscopic display https://www.researchgate.net/figure/A-Reachin-Display-equipped-with-a-Desktop-PHANToM_fig2_228367531 https://www.researchgate.net/figure/A-Reachin-Display-equipp... The company H3D has built something similar. https://h3d.org/ https://h3d.org/
cubefox 3y ago
That's way too high level and ambiguous. Something could look okay in one browser and totally crap in another.
- johnnyanmac 3y ago
  >look okay in one browser and totally crap in another. We're talking about 3d model formats where the current industry standard is a close sourced Autodesk nightmare. This is already the default situaton. There's not much incentive to change either because animation and game studios tend to roll their own tech.
JayStavis 3y ago
Sounds like you are looking for react-three-fiber, which looks just like this! The examples, demos, and development experience are great, but since it's based on web tech hasn't made a big splash yet with the bigger 3D content businesses. You can actually render a gltf as a JSX tree too with gltfjsx: https://github.com/pmndrs/gltfjsx https://github.com/pmndrs/gltfjsx
datavirtue 3y ago
<surface orientation=x name="south wall" rotation=-125 .../>

sien 3y ago

There was a company in Sweden that built a system that used VRML and extended like that where you could define what the nodes were and reference and re-use them. The system also enable Python to script behaviour. It also used the PHANToM for haptic feedback and used a 3D stereoscopic display https://www.researchgate.net/figure/A-Reachin-Display-equipped-with-a-Desktop-PHANToM_fig2_228367531 https://www.researchgate.net/figure/A-Reachin-Display-equipp... The company H3D has built something similar. https://h3d.org/ https://h3d.org/

cubefox 3y ago

That's way too high level and ambiguous. Something could look okay in one browser and totally crap in another.

johnnyanmac 3y ago
>look okay in one browser and totally crap in another. We're talking about 3d model formats where the current industry standard is a close sourced Autodesk nightmare. This is already the default situaton. There's not much incentive to change either because animation and game studios tend to roll their own tech.

JayStavis 3y ago

Sounds like you are looking for react-three-fiber, which looks just like this! The examples, demos, and development experience are great, but since it's based on web tech hasn't made a big splash yet with the bigger 3D content businesses. You can actually render a gltf as a JSX tree too with gltfjsx: https://github.com/pmndrs/gltfjsx https://github.com/pmndrs/gltfjsx

datavirtue 3y ago