Seriously had no idea it went like this. I was a kid playing with VHSB so for me, it was a hoot - I could make my house, my school, the local swimming pool. I see parallels in my own son as he works on various 3D projects - it's just so fun, so different from reality, you're so powerful.
Clearly programmability is why the web became so successful; if it hadn't evolved into the messy apps platform it has become, it would have been surpassed by something else that had those features.
That said, doesn't it stand to reason that if VRML had been more usable with its basic feature set, it might have seen enough adoption to give birth to Dynamic VRML? After all, we apply an unhealthy dosage of Javascript to everything else in the world, why wouldn't it have soaked in there too? CSS for 3D objects, why not?
Clearly programmability is why the web became so successful; if it hadn't evolved into the messy apps platform it has become, it would have been surpassed by something else that had those features.
That said, doesn't it stand to reason that if VRML had been more usable with its basic feature set, it might have seen enough adoption to give birth to Dynamic VRML? After all, we apply an unhealthy dosage of Javascript to everything else in the world, why wouldn't it have soaked in there too? CSS for 3D objects, why not?