Look at the frenetic discourse around Eolas being granted a patent for "weblets". It's kind of amazing that a bespoke web "grid computer" almost became the standard for 3D viz in the browser. Instead I recall just a lot of fragmentation in the early 3D web: Sun people just used Java applets, MS folks rolled out ActiveX controls, etc.
Eolas MultiVIS™: A Web-based interactive remote visualization
environment and navigable volume imagemap system
https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-talk/
Look at the frenetic discourse around Eolas being granted a patent for "weblets". It's kind of amazing that a bespoke web "grid computer" almost became the standard for 3D viz in the browser. Instead I recall just a lot of fragmentation in the early 3D web: Sun people just used Java applets, MS folks rolled out ActiveX controls, etc.
Eolas MultiVIS™: A Web-based interactive remote visualization environment and navigable volume imagemap system
http://www.eolas.com/img/20-1-spie-aipr-10-99-multivis.pdf