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Re:Only 90s Web Developers Remember This by dalke on Tuesday February 25, 2014 @05:08PM (#7300990)
I remember when SGI came by to demo their VRML viewer with an animated character. During Q&A I commented that the web made it easy to learn by 'view source'; "how do you do that with VRML?" I remember being dissatisfied with their response. (I think you were supposed to use one of their authoring tools for it?)
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Re:Only 90s Web Developers Remember This by bhousel on Tuesday February 25, 2014 @08:37PM (#7302159)
Was it Floops?
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Re:Only 90s Web Developers Remember This by dalke on Tuesday February 25, 2014 @09:14PM (#7302325)
Whoa! Totally!

Ahh, and I see now why it would have been so hard to author - it was based on motion capture.

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Re:Only 90s Web Developers Remember This by bhousel on Tuesday February 25, 2014 @10:02PM (#7302583)
Yeah, I was working at a VRML startup at the time and we used Floops to test our code. I probably watched those animations thousands of times...
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