duanemoody opened this issue on Feb 26, 2002 ยท 14 posts
duanemoody posted Wed, 27 February 2002 at 12:46 AM
OK. Here's what I want to see. A lightweight (meaning compressed), secure (meaning encrypted) protocol/plugin for streaming 3D animations, with the same basic features RealMedia offers. Embeddable with/without playback controls, optional hotspots, slideshows as well as animations, scalable render quality keyed to modem/internet speed (rather than Real's method of recoding at separate resolutions and bloating the file)... If you know anything about SMIL you know where I'm going. Devise the technology first and worry about the killer app second. Cybering some might-be-a-woman in Sims drag in a virtual chatroom just seems too close to watching plushies get it on for my likes. And what digit8r said about rotating products is too true; a much more useful application would be a lo-res travelable Visible Human or working see-through Wankel Rotary Engine, esp. if there were some interactivity.