Steve... have you changed email addresses?? jeffs -- Jeff Sonstein http://www.blaxxun.com http://ariadne.iz.net/~jeffs/jeffs.asc ========================================= Director of Technical Support blaxxun Interactive -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 03, 1999 3:45 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: BOUNCE [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Non-member submission from [Steve Guynup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Jun 3 15:45:21 1999 Received: from mail.gra.com (mail.gra.com [209.49.128.3]) by ariadne.iz.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA12047 for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:45:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Received: from [192.168.1.126] (192.168.1.126 [192.168.1.126]) by mail.gra.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2448.0) id MGL3CSN5; Thu, 3 Jun 1999 18:38:31 -0400 Message-Id: <l03110702b37cad8aed53@[192.168.1.126]> In-Reply-To: <000001beae00$1c8ba760$81389ad1@jons-computer> References: <l0311070eb37b4570a0c1@[192.168.1.126]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1999 18:41:47 -0400 To: "Jon Meadows" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: Steve Guynup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: VRML apps source code going public Cc: "VNet mailing list (E-mail)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> First, I'd like to say that after year of chatter. i think I might be getting my MU on. The gallery, complete with a piece on Kovoso, is nearing completion... and on back to our regularly scheduled conversation. >That's why I was wondering if Sony might seize the oppurtunity. >Perhaps you could help me understand the VNet - blaxxun interrelationship. >It seems to me that if VNet were to continue to develop further that it >could eventually end up competing in some ways with blaxxun. Not to >sound paranoid, but if anyone could outflank VNet development it would be >you or Jeff. I HATE saying this but... If VNet gets really "good" at MU >then would it not be Jeff's RESPONSIBILITY to counter it? Please tell me >I'm all wrong... You are all wrong ;^} ( and do you have me confused with Stephen White ;^) ? I'm just a content guy - anything I do is conceptually based and so any MU can takes my ideas... VNet - blaxxun interrelationship? They are both MU but that's really it, The communities are moderately supportive or at least "openly tolerant" of each other. As far a Jeff goes, the odds of VNet competing with Blaxxun in the near to mid future aren't very high. And even if it did happen, Jeff would fight fair. >what do you mean by "smaller"? read the X3D goals - you'll find phrase lightweight cropping up and also the content niches they seek are not very high-end. But I suggest you view their docs http://www.web3D.org/TaskGroups/x3d/X3dIndex.html >I keep wondering if there will be a 2 tier VRML browser market. Maybe - read the X3D documents. >bank on it ;-) >My company will be empowering VRML developers and digital artists >to do just that. The first potential investor (a year and a half >ago) I had called my ideas "gobbley gook". Well that "gook" went >to market this week 8-) >We're finalizing contracts, non-disclosures, trademarks, and >patent issues so that I can start letting >the VRML community know what we're doing and plan on doing over >the next month. I just want to develop and tinker, but as I have >found out, every time I want to let the community know about >something interesting we have to protect ourselves first and that >has taken a extraordinary amount of time itself. >We look forward to the commercial possibilities ;-) well yahoo, good luck, and by all means protect yourself. Steve
