From jpierce@cs.cmu.edu Tue Aug 25 11:15:31 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 LAA14016 for ; Tue, 25 Aug 1998 11:15:29 -0400 (EDT) Received: from wheaten.hitl.washington.edu (IDENT:wfq/UeSdrTJne4XI/ecC/t4p4lUL4+TE@[128.95.73.60]) by burdell.cc.gatech.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id LAA26119 for ; Tue, 25 Aug 1998 11:15:27 -0400 (EDT) Received: from ux2.sp.cs.cmu.edu (UX2.SP.CS.CMU.EDU [128.2.198.102]) by wheaten.hitl.washington.edu (8.8.8/8.6.12) with SMTP id IAA07198 for <3d-ui@hitl.washington.edu>; Tue, 25 Aug 1998 08:15:14 PDT Message-Id: <199808251515.IAA07198@wheaten.hitl.washington.edu> Received: from HITCHCOCK.PC.CS.CMU.EDU by ux2.sp.cs.cmu.edu id aa08367; 25 Aug 98 11:15 EDT X-Sender: jpierce@ux2.sp.cs.cmu.edu X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0.2 Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1998 11:11:30 -0400 To: 3d-ui@hitl.washington.edu From: Jeff Pierce Subject: Re: COSMO In-Reply-To: <35E26234.5C22@archit.uni-weimar.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Status: RO Ernst is correct, SGI shut down Cosmo. In fact, the head of the Cosmo Project (Kai-fu Lee), has already been snapped up by Microsoft Research. And for those playing along at home, Alice (http://www.alice.org) now has a web browser plug-in so that you can view Alice worlds over the web. Jeff At 09:05 AM 8/25/98 +0200, Ernst Kruijff wrote: >Hi All, > >About COSMO - I heared from a thrustfull source that SGI is quiting the >COSMO development department, that's all. I also know, in command to >Ivan's mail, that Java 3D is increasing in popularity, but do we REALLY >need it? I mean, at this moment there is a reasonably high support of >VRML in true VR applications. I personally could not name one real VR >application which supports Java 3D. Anyone? > >Cheerio, > > -Ernst