VRML
Does the presence of this post indicate that VRML is going to be relevant for ...anything... ever again?<p>I have an old t-shirt around somewhere from a VRML event in the mid-90&#x27;s (back when I was tinkering on making dumb little scenes a cracked AutoCAD)... yay, it&#x27;s relevant again :)<p>Personally, I&#x27;ve felt for a long time that as video cards and GPUs have made rendering a buzzillion polygons per second tenable, operating system developers should rethink their attachment to the two dimensional desktop metaphor that&#x27;s been the interface for over three decades now. Whenever I suggest this, people tend to knee-jerk on how silly the Jurassic Park scene is with the SGI filesystem navigator (ya, the &quot;It&#x27;s unix! I know this&quot; scene). Yep, that was the extent of our imagination working within the constraints thirty years ago but I do believe we can and should do better. But I have little confidence in the capacity of Meta or Microsoft to drive that kind of innovation, the creativity and incentives within those organizations will thwart any breakthroughs.