From grof@hitl.washington.edu Tue Aug 25 10:27:32 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 KAA12070 for ; Tue, 25 Aug 1998 10:27:25 -0400 (EDT) Received: from wheaten.hitl.washington.edu (IDENT:ZY58gm+AK5fJ0A13qm3kzngcidSXXZuT@[128.95.73.60]) by burdell.cc.gatech.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id KAA18276 for ; Tue, 25 Aug 1998 10:27:24 -0400 (EDT) Received: from stout.hitl.washington.edu (VRS3G0DL8k/mEVs3tFcFe35YHoNYUggB@stout.hitl.washington.edu [128.95.74.41]) by wheaten.hitl.washington.edu (8.8.8/8.6.12) with SMTP id HAA29953; Tue, 25 Aug 1998 07:15:31 PDT Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1998 07:15:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Mark Billinghurst To: Ernst Kruijff cc: 3d-ui@hitl.washington.edu Subject: Re: COSMO In-Reply-To: <35E26234.5C22@archit.uni-weimar.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Status: RO The HIT Lab has build a collaborative virtual environment (Greenspace III) using Java 3D, but it's slow and was difficult to develop because we were using the alpha version of library.. It's going to be continually developed and updated though. It should be a lot mor usable as tha Java 3D libraries improve .. Mark +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Mark Billinghurst | Human Interface Technology Laboratory grof@hitl.washington.edu | University of Washington, Box 352-142 fax: +1-206-543-5380 | Seattle, WA 98195 On Tue, 25 Aug 1998, 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 > -- > ...... Dipl.-Drs. Ernst Kruijff > > ...... Bauhaus-University Weimar > Computer Science in Architecture and Urban Planning (Donath) > Geschwister-Scholl-Strasse 7, 99421 Weimar, Germany > Ernst.Kruijff@archit.uni-weimar.de > http://www.uni-weimar.de/~kruijff/ > tel. (0) 3643 - 584209 | fax. (0) 3643 - 584202 > > ...... Private: > Schlossgasse 17/19, 99423 Weimar, Germany > tel. (0) 3643 - 902033 >