Re: FLASH: studio max vs. strata 3d studio (now shockwave3d)

[Michael@BTW]

Well, if it was MS/Intel, I would indeed be quite skeptical and send it to

the round file.


However, to me, MACR/Intel is a very different couplet.


Michael Penney

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Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2000 2:23 PM

Subject: Re: FLASH: studio max vs. strata 3d studio (now shockwave3d)



> >It may be too late now, as it appears the mothership is finally(!) making

a

> >move in this area:

> >

> >"Intel is teaming with Macromedia to deliver 3-D technologies to the

> >Internet. Intel's dynamic 3-D rendering engine will soon be included in

> >Macromedia's Shockwave Player, so you'll be able to view real-world 3-D

on

> >the Web with a bandwidth-friendly solution."

>

> Please don't buy into that hype PR hogwash Michael.  It is vaporware

> and that's all.

> "Is teaming with."  "Will do".   Sure.  Same old MS/Intel tricks of

> announcing way before anything is available - along with all the big

> promises designed to steer the devlopers away from a real product.

>

> Remember when MS set out to destroy Flash with their Chroma?  That

> failed miserably too even though it was backed by all that  MS money.

> Flash was simply far better, and won.

>

> They have a long, long way to go to even resemble Pulse3D, which is

> out and running now, and also supported by real content creators like

> Warner, etc.

>

> >While Pulse's player is very nice, their licensing is completly

> >unaceptable, IMO.

>

> Not to real players it isn't.  The truth is that the Pulse license is

> a small fraction of any major website design budget.  None of my

> clients has even batted an eye.  And their content creator is free

> for the developers.  I like that idea a lot better.

>

> A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.  Anybody can talk, but

> Pulse delivered.

>

> ATB,

>

> /wayne

>

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