Re: VRML usage (from www-vrml@wired.com)

Mark Waks (justin@dsd.camb.inmet.com)
Fri, 21 Apr 95 11:23:49 EDT

Andrew suggests, with respect to person-to-person audio:
>I suggest we consider a Broadcast Server configuration. The user sends
>control changes via a low bandwidth channel (like the Internet, or a
>direct modem connection). The Server updates the space on the fly, and
>broadcasts it via a high bandwidth system like Cable TV. The data is
>received by the client, and is used to update the display, and provide
>the audio, just like TV.

In theory, this seems like a win; in practice, I suspect it'll be
several years before the technology base is there to support it. This
idea is making some big assumptions about the capabilities of the
hardware, and while I *do* think that this is where things are heading
in the long run, it's clearly not the current Internet-based model.

For the time being (that is, the next couple of years), I think we'll
have to suffer with the limitations of the Internet...

-- Justin
Whose father is one of the gurus of
broadband, so I've got *some* feel for
the likely timing...

Random Quote du Jour:

"I ran out of Thorazine and the voices told me to miss the test.
My adolescence got the best of me.
My grandmother died. ("When?") 1974."
-- from "Final Impotence: Reasons Why I Missed the Test"