I posted a comment about this in another thread moments ago- There are a LOT of really big commerce projects in the works for this technology, because it has arrived at a time where all the pieces (dreaded word about to be used) converged. Bandwidth, large scale success of online communities, affordable, accessable and commercially viable tools to produce the content, businesses globally adopting online marketing & commerce systems to push products, extremely high resolution textrue and model deployment, and names that aren't risky behind the initiative. (Adobe is a blue-chip bet in some cases) All these things are here today, unlike '95 when VRML, Blaxxsun and Alpha World were the most visible examples. (sorry for the name drop but I'm really good friends with Pesce and Parisi) And the list of projects slated for deployment with this system is significant, -we're involved indirectly and directly in a number of them- major instituions in business, information, and education are looking for alternative, complementary methods to inform, educate, entertain and sell. Steve Cooper Curious Labs