Re:atmosphere vs vrml (Score 1)

Adobe? Adobe is great, and Adobe might even win vs vrml alone, but let's not forget about macromedia. Atmosphere is a neat toy if all you want are 3d chat worlds, but it will not become an industry standard because 3d worlds with avatars are not going to be a killer app for 3d on the web, at least any time soon. How many people actually want to do this? The builder app is cool but it is a bloated plugin from a company whose only luck with plugins so far is PDF. Games and CBT are what is going to drive web 3D in the near term (and not those moronic 3D cartoons either). That's where the $ is. Flash and shockwave are the only plugins people will actually use for interactive content like that. They aren't perfect either but with 3D in shockwave now (not a beta), along with its huge industry support, why would a 3D developer go somewhere else? Only drawback is that it is proprietary but the benefit is it will actually work and be on peoples machines! This is what will make a difference. Some day hopefully they will open up the format like swf or support an open standard like x3d if that ever takes off, but having support on users machines and function consistently is what is needed to get the ball rolling. Now if only Adobe and Macromedia would get together (no not likely). Atmosphere should use Shockwave to display their worlds. Why have yet another plugin? Ain't gonna happen.