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Visualizing Information Using SVG and X3D - XML-based Technologies for the XML-based Web (Hardcover, 2005 ed.)
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Visualizing Information Using SVG and X3D - XML-based Technologies for the XML-based Web (Hardcover, 2005 ed.)
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Correcting the Great Mistake People often mistake one thing for
another. That's human nature. However, one would expect the leaders
in a particular ?eld of endeavour to have superior ab- ities to
discriminate among the developments within that ?eld. That is why
it is so perplexing that the technology elite - supposedly savvy
folk such as software developers, marketers and businessmen - have
continually mistaken Web-based graphics for something it is not.
The ?rst great graphics technology for the Web, VRML, has been
mistaken for something else since its inception. Viewed variously
as a game system, a format for architectural walkthroughs, a
platform for multi-user chat and an augmentation of reality, VRML
may qualify as the least understood invention in the history of
inf- mation technology. Perhaps it is so because when VRML was
originally introduced it was touted as a tool for putting the
shopping malls of the world online, at once prosaic and
horrifyingly mundane to those of us who were developing it. Perhaps
those ?rst two initials,"VR,"created expectations of sprawling,
photorealistic f- tasy landscapes for exploration and play across
the Web. Or perhaps the magnitude of the invention was simply too
great to be understood at the time by the many, ironically even by
those spending the money to underwrite its development. Regardless
of the reasons, VRML suffered in the mainstream as it was twisted
to meet unintended ends and stretched far beyond its limitations.
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