For everyone who doesn't read www-vrml avidly, there's good news and
bad news ...
The Bad News
Platinum, the owners of CosmoPlayer and Worldview, recently sacked
1000 staff including everyone working on 3D. Although only 40 people
were involved in the 3D side, many were veterans in the VRML community
and include former staff members of Cosmo software, VREAM and
Intervista. The announcement unfortunately coincided with the VRML99
conference which is on this week.
The Good News
Platinum intend to Open Source everything they own to do with
VRML. This includes CosmoPlayer, WorldView for Developers and even
CosmoWorlds, CosmoPageFX and CosmoCode. Development will be overseen
by the Web3D Consortium.
now this should be interesting.
http://www.cosmosoftware.com/aboutus/news/3dopen_pr.html
Anthony
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