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To: J Navarro who wrote (615)	3/3/2000 4:58:00 AM
From: J Navarro	Respond to of 710

X3D SDK CD listing now on Web3D's site. You can find it at sdk.web3d.org Perceptronics' IC3D is listed under the Tools menu option. You can actually run the e-commerce demo by doing the following: 1. Click on e-commerce (pop's up separate window); 2. Enter ic3d.perceptronics.com as the host and choose salesperson; 3. Click on e-commerce again and choose customer (after entering host). The functionality is pretty bare bones. However, it shows off the intent of the product - real-time, 3D collaboration. If you click on/drag the chair in the Salesperson window, you can watch it rotate both in the Salesperson window, and in the Customer's window as a result of the IC3D back-end messaging. I've got a DSL connection so it's synched pretty well... be interested in hearing how it works in slower connection environments. What's cool is that this is being done w/out any VRML plug-in... it's all X3D extension driven, and IC3D should obviously be able to hook into any X3D renderer. The e-commerce demo was developed in conjunction with Walker Group/CNI... one implementation that quickly came to mind was a shared 3D environment where multiple users could collaborate on a given object. Kind of akin to the shared whiteboards we've all seen, but the whiteboard's replaced with a true 3D object/environment... it's easy to envision multiple users manipulating some object in a shared 3D space. There are cameras out there now that can take pictures of a given object and implement that object, graphically in 3D. One could easily imagine an environment where company's hold meetings allowing many users in disparate locations to poke, prod, and manipulate a given object in 3D - real time. Likewise, presentations where a master (presenter) manipulates a 3D environment and all changed state is presented to many slaves (viewers) in real-time would be intriguing as well. The bandwidth savings over streaming video would be enormous. I believe games are just the tip of the iceberg... It's my opinion that real-time collaboration will be the Killer App that propels X3D. Question is, how will Perceptronics fare? I'd be interested in hearing other's take on possible implementations. What's the killer app? jn