Chambers wrote:
> 
> Sounds like a job for... VRML!!!
> 

I thought I was the only person who looked at Google's new Lively, and 
was reminded of Blaxxun's Colony City.

> It's amazing the problems that were solved before 1995, and then 
> forgotten about :)
> 
> Actually, in looking at the Wikipedia page, it seems it's been 
> superseded by another format, X3D, which sounds like a cross between 
> VRML and XML (why is XML used for *everything* these days?).
> 

Because XML must be hundreds of times easier to parse then VRML, if I 
remember right. Different viewers supporting different extensions. And 
using VRML for MUD-like systems, and early MMO type games?

Computers and network bandwidth have finally caught up, and the 
presentation of media has shifted from distributed computers each with 
their own view on the virtual world, to central systems displaying the 
same thing to each client. X3D might be able to find a use, but it's not 
going to be the same as VRML.

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