Just wondering if maybe someone here know what ever became of VRML. I have a book by Mark Pesce. I bought it in 1995. That was going to be THE shit. Talking MATRIX sites, virtual reality, Demi Moore horking your flow. And then it was gone... I know it was terrible, but was Lawnmower Man that bad?
So now everyone's running GHz processors and 56K is quaint and we could all seriously kick the crap out of VRML2005 but, like, so where is it? What happened?
[ September 21, 2005, 07:19 AM: Message edited by: Balaam Xumucane ]
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
My guess would be the essential conservatism of modern society. The internet is domesticated. People don't want 733t sh!tz man yo stuff.
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
Virtual reality turned out to be boring and lame.
Posted by WizArtist II (Member # 1425) on :
"We tried making a perfect world but your minds couldn't accept it. So we had to create this world"
to badly paraphrase Agent Smith
Posted by Marauth (Member # 1320) on :
VR always was gonna be lame and always will be until someone can invent some way of directly transfering the signals of the virtual 'world' they've created directly into the player's brain - bypassing the information our real senses give us about the world. Without that you'll always feel like a prat with a big black helmet and some silly gloves on.
Lawnmower Man was the shit, can't really recall the sequel though.
Posted by Balaam Xumucane (Member # 419) on :
quote:Originally posted by Sol System: Virtual reality turned out to be boring and lame.
I remember a lot of the old sites (viewed with Mosaic) were simply awful. And just look at the web now... OK. Point taken-- No, but surely things must have improved, standards, technology, design, n'est pas? This isn't a it's-2005-where's-my -hovercar thread. In 1995 I had a plug-in for my browser that let me explore VRML worlds (such as they were) across TEH INTARNET. What happened to that? Why is the latest version of the standard VRML97? Why are half the sites you google 4 years out of date?
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
quote:Originally posted by Marauth: Lawnmower Man was the shit
That definitive article has no place in that sentence.
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
What happened was people watched "Jurassic Park"-DVD and then saw the truth, VRML kills. Only by the skills of a truly vegetarian computer-whizzette were the heroes saved from the cretaceous menace, whereas a simple folder queue would've let anyone save the day by the force of teh scroll!
Virtual Reality is expensive and time consuming to create and requires a good broadband connection to see.. really, we're just now getting the pieces in place. Look at the online games, like SW Galaxies, Everquest, and World of Warcraft, for example... they are about as VR as the general consumer base can use.