From poup@mic.atr.co.jp Mon Aug 24 22:41:21 1998 Received: from burdell.cc.gatech.edu (root@burdell.cc.gatech.edu [130.207.3.207]) by lennon.cc.gatech.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id WAA28866 for ; Mon, 24 Aug 1998 22:41:13 -0400 (EDT) Received: from wheaten.hitl.washington.edu (IDENT:wo+aMZ78I/ju7JmTlMSS3Ju5tZadCP3d@[128.95.73.60]) by burdell.cc.gatech.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id WAA26310 for ; Mon, 24 Aug 1998 22:41:12 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mailhost.mic.atr.co.jp (mic.atr.co.jp [133.186.20.201]) by wheaten.hitl.washington.edu (8.8.8/8.6.12) with ESMTP id TAA31038 for <3d-ui@hitl.washington.edu>; Mon, 24 Aug 1998 19:41:02 PDT Received: from pop.mic.atr.co.jp by mailhost.mic.atr.co.jp (8.9.1+3.0W/3.7W) id LAA22980; Tue, 25 Aug 1998 11:40:05 +0900 (JST) Received: from mic.atr.co.jp by pop.mic.atr.co.jp (8.8.8+2.7Wbeta7/3.6W04/07/98) id LAA00103; Tue, 25 Aug 1998 11:40:04 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <35E223A1.40C7CE3D@mic.atr.co.jp> Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1998 11:38:25 +0900 From: Ivan Poupyrev Organization: ATR International X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ernst Kruijff CC: 3d-ui@hitl.washington.edu Subject: Re: VRML browsers and COSMO References: <35E124A6.7333@archit.uni-weimar.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Status: RO > 'What is your opinion on the future of VRML with the recent death > of COSMO?" (is there a future.. or not) I do not really follow VRML news, so why COSMO is dead? Last thing I heard was that VRML is facing increasingly strong competition form Java 3D. I have not been at the SIGGRAPH this year where Java 3D was probably demonstrated, did any of you guys who went to SIGGRAPH had chance to try it? Ivan -- Ivan Poupyrev [poup@mic.atr.co.jp/poup@hitl.washington.edu] Researcher, MIC Labs, ATR International, Japan 0774-951432] Ph. D. Candidate, ISL, Hiroshima University, Japan 0824-212959] Visiting Scientist, HITL, University of Washington, US 206-6161474] http://www.hitl.washington.edu/people/poup]