I think I agree with fls13 that Poser has a greater potential future at the lower end of the spectrum. It's uncertain whether investing significantly more in high-end integration would result in significantly greater acceptance from the rather insular elite 3D market. On the other hand, the immense popularity of 'The Sims,' human avatars in messaging applications etc. I think shows that a much bigger potential market exists/We're also going to see more and more "intelligent" applications, personal "agents", etc. that would all benefir from having a "human" face on them. Microsoft's animated Office assistants were a primitive effort in that direction. I think there's a big potential for an application that can make it easy for non-experts to create, customize and personalize 3D human characters, especially as bandwidth and processing power grow to permit real-time 3D presentation..

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