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Purpose: Displays navigable 3-D worlds Company: Integrated Data Systems Platform: Win 95, NT Plug-in cost: Free Developer tool: VRealm Builder Download from: http://www.ids-net.com/ids/downldpi.html | |||
There's a whole mess of VRML plug-ins and virtual-reality browsers available, but once you discount the ones that don't quite work, only a few remain. One of these is VRealm, the first commercial product from Integrated Data Systems, a Georgia-ba sed company that's developed 3-D and VR products for the Web since 1991. Although VRealm is plagued by interface problems common in VRML plug-ins, it does seem to actually work. It supports VRML 1.0, as well as its own format, allowing for collision detection (which prevents users from moving through solid objects), g ravity, object behaviors, and autopilot (some of which are possible with VRML 2.0). Unfortunately, VRealm isn't cross-platform, while a comparable plug-in, Live3D, is. | ||||
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