From: Bob Crispen <crispen@hiwaay.net>
Subject: Re: TECH: Superscape vs(?) VRML
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1996 17:35:48 -0600
Organization: http://hiwaay.net/~crispen/


I received a note from a person who hasn't given me permission to
quote him(her?), so I won't, but I'm delighted to clear up a
misunderstanding I seem to have caused wrt Superscape and VRML.

As a member of the VRML community for a little under 2 years,
I've naturally been interested in the goings-on in VRML, and
somewhat less interested in developments in the alternatives
to VRML (DIVE, Meme, WebOOGL, etc.).

A recent spate of self-promotion by the Superscape folks in the
VRML arena, following an almost Benedictine silence, has led at
least this writer into mistaking them for Johnny-come-latelys.

Apologies for my ignorance and misunderstanding.  However!  I
sincerely believe that there is a message Superscape has for
the world led, at least numerically, by the VRML folks as they
stumble into Cyberspace, I don't believe they've said it as
clearly as it needs to be said.  Of course, considering the
evidence at hand, it may be far likelier that I'm simply too
dim to pick it up, but after reading their messages on www-vrml
and their website, I'm not completely sure what they're trying
to say.

Perhaps if they're on the program at VRML 97 in Monterrey, I'll
finally figure it out.

And, btw, nothing pejorative was meant by "self-promotion".  I
only wish they'd done it sooner and louder.
-- 
Rev. Bob "Bob" Crispen
crispen@hiwaay.net
"A polar bear is just another way of expressing a rectangular bear."