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- Netscape Live3D Plug-In - July 30th, 1996
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- Live3D extends Navigator 3.0 into the 3D realm. With this VRML (Virtual Reality
- Modeling Language) viewer, you can experience a rich new world of 3D spaces and
- interact with text, images, animation, sound, music, and even video. Its many
- groundbreaking new features include:
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- High-performance VRML viewing - Live3D lets you access distributed 3D spaces
- rendered at maximum speed with adaptive rendering, background processing, hardware
- acceleration, and GZIP data compression.
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- Animation - Live3D worlds can be full of objects with rich, lifelike behaviors.
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- Navigation - Live3D makes it easy to navigate in 3D space by letting you walk,
- fly, or point. Selectable camera viewpoints, collision detection, and optional
- gravity add flexibility and realism to navigation.
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- Multimedia - Live3D offers full integration with LiveMedia for streaming audio and
- video in 3D space.
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- 3D Applications - Soon, you will be able to run 3D applications written for the
- Live3D platform. Examples include multiuser 3D games, chat environments,
- geographical information systems, authoring environments, interactive
- advertisements, online presentations, and database visualizations.
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- Multiplatform-ready - Available with Netscape Navigator 3.0 for Windows 3.1,
- Windows 95, Windows NT, and Power Macintosh. Versions for 68K Macintosh and Unix
- are under development.
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