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I remember the promise of VRML, but never had a machine powerful enough to render anything but the simplest examples. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/VRML http
by jayknight 1y ago
I remember the promise of VRML, but never had a machine powerful enough to render anything but the simplest examples.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/VRML https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/VRML
- Keyframe 1y agoI worked on SGI machines at the time and even that wasn't powerful enough. Even though Indy was dubbed as "the web machine" (I worked on Indigo2). It was a bit too early when it was promised.
- doawoo 1y agowild that I booted up my SGI O2 the other night just to remember the name of the tech used in the demos that ran inside Netscape! And then spent a whole while reading about VRML. I wish we had something as easy to deploy interactive experiences on the web like that today.
- perilunar 1y agoWell, you can still use it — the plugins are dead but there's a couple of JS libraries that will render VRML files in the browser using WebGL: • https://www.x3dom.org https://www.x3dom.org • https://create3000.github.io/x_ite/ https://create3000.github.io/x_ite/
- socalgal2 1y agothe VRML people migrated to X3D https://webx3d.org/ https://webx3d.org/ I don't believe it ever had any real uptake. It arguably has (had?) lots of issues.