Re: FLASH: OT - IPIX alternative please?

[Michael Penney]

Hey, after suggesting another poster look into Shout3d, it just struck me

that you might be able to achieve this using a sphere with flipped normals

and a properly warped texture applied to the _inside_ of the sphere. Since

Shout also requires no plug-in (also uses Java) and can be set to navigate

with smooth mouse motion including zoom (unlike the lingo demo mentioned

earlier, sorry) and see the sphere as a collision object (so you couldn't

escape from it;-) it might just be a great way to provide plug-in less 360

VR (and you could mix-in 3D objects w/in your sphere as well). Only (-) I

can see (besides developing something that hasn't been done yet, AFAIK;-) is

that the file size of textures of decent resolution might be a bit large.


Anyway, more at http://www.shout3d.com, including the news that Shout3d v2

will stream, yum yum;-)...


If it works, don't tell IPIX (I can just see them suing Sun next for making

more than one way to do things in Java;-).


Hey, anyone know if Director8 can play java3d/vrml files?


> 

> jd,

> 

> Thanks for the response.

> 

> The reason the clients have found IPIX appealing is beacause of its ability to

> provide full 360 without a plugin.  The "player" in that case is done in Java

> and does not require the visitor to download anything.

> 

> I have received some GREAT suggestions and direction from this list and have

> found a couple options which appear to be great replacements for the "kludgy"

> software (and service) I have been wrestling with.

> 

> Thanks everyone!  Any additional comments/suggestions are welcome!

> 

> J

> 


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Michael Penney

Sharpener of the Cutting Edge

BigTimeWeb.Com




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