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Regardless of whatever efforts are made to create
standards for real time 3D systems based on XML,
yet another effort is announced and players line
up to support it. This time, it is Collada.
www.collada.com
Given the heavy handed efforts out there to control
and create an environment for an industry (Gaming) that
has no history of interoperability, one has to wonder
if any of these efforts have legs. One wonders what
the investors and marketers can make of all of this
other than, this is a market that has fragmented before
it has sales. Strange and bizarre.
The only conclusion I can draw is that the interest
in real time 3D on the web is increasing after the
long lull. The first victims, as usual, are the pioneers.
Collada is basically X3D by another name from another
source (Sony) setting itself up to duke it out with
3DIF (Intel) both sitting as squarely on the W3DC with
its ISO standard and requirements for open source and
unencumbered specifications.
Predator and prey. One wishes the bigCos would learn
another game, but not so far. "Thanks for all the fish..."
Of course, the W3C will sit back and watch and Microsoft
will move along with XAML and Avalon3D. Perhaps among all
of the efforts, a genuine market will emerge and that will
create a visible and undeniable need for convergence. Give
it ten years.
len
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