Re: VRML / QuickTime VR marriage

Stephen Chenney (schenney@CS.Berkeley.EDU)
Mon, 16 Oct 1995 19:59:42 -0700 (PDT)


> As a Mac primary user and designer, I would like to clear up a
> couple of items involving QTVR
>
> 1) QTVR can be used with 3D generated scenes to make
> movies, so surreal landscapes and such (including space stations) can be
> modeled into a QTVR movie

Sorry if I implied otherwise. My point was that it is not the primary goal
of QTVR. Or is it?

> 2)With the inclusion of "hot spot" links (and a little
> tweaking of the code) you should be able to create url links inside a QTVR
> movie.

I thought they were working on this. More strongly, I thought they had it
happening.

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> If the VRML group is interested in adding QTVR to VRML or creating
> some sort of merged technology, this could solve the problems in #3, but I
> imagine since so many people have problems simply porting browsers to the
> mac platform, creating a convergent spec with workable code is unlikely
> without some apple.com input and assistance. Although it's a neat idea,
> VRML/QTVR marriage is at best going to be a late bloomer

It is not inconceivable that when (if?) QTVR gets ported to other platforms,
or clones show up, the VRML browser could launch a QTVR viewer when a QTVR
link was clicked on. That surely would not be too difsicult - and it is
really all that is esquired.

Steve.


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