Shockwave Player Going 3D
- ALIAS|WAVEFRONT,
DISCREET, NXVIEW,
AND SOFTIMAGE
EMBRACE INTEL AND
MACROMEDIA
DEVELOPMENT
EFFORTS. 3D
Software Companies
to Use Macromedia
Shockwave Player
As A Primary 3D
Delivery Platform
for the Web.
Macromedia, Inc.
(NASDAQ: MACR),
and Intel
Corporation today
announced that 3D
software
developers
Alias|Wavefront,
Discreet Logic,
NxView
Technologies,
Inc., and
Softimage have all
pledged their
support for the 3D
technology Intel
and Macromedia are
developing for the
Internet...
Health
Advocates Stand
Against Violence
- Four national
health
organizations
issue a consensus
statement linking
violent behavior
and violent
content in movies,
music, and games.
In a two-page
statement
yesterday, four
national health
organizations
asserted that
there is a strong
consensus in the
public health
community that
violent
entertainment can
increase violent
behavior in young
people. While the
report bases its
overall findings
on studies focused
on violent content
in television,
movies, and music,
it does state that
games may have a
negative impact
that is
"significantly
more severe"
than other media...
3-D
That Could
Transform the Web
- Most of us still
try to eke enough
bandwidth out of
our PCs so that
movies and
animations don't
look like paper
flip books. But
here comes the
next step: 3-D
images. A team of
researchers has
developed a way to
compress detailed
geometrical data
so that it can be
transmitted on the
Internet and
viewed and
manipulated on
personal
computers, just as
images are now...
INTEL
AND MACROMEDIA
TEAM UP TO
POPULARIZE 3D
TECHNOLOGY ON THE
WEB -
Robust Intel
Internet 3D
Graphics
Technology to be
integrated with
pervasive
Macromedia
Shockwave Player.
Intel Corporation
and Macromedia,
Inc. (NASDAQ: MACR),
today announced
joint development
efforts to bring
Intel's Internet
3D Graphics
software
technology to the
Macromedia
Shockwave Player.
The Intel Internet
3D
Graphics-enhanced
Shockwave Player
will enable the
next generation of
bandwidth-friendly,
high quality
interactive games,
engaging
entertainment, and
more intuitive
online shopping...
Web Multimedia Player Going 3-D
- One of the most widely used multimedia
players on the Web is going 3-D. Macromedia, Inc. and Intel Corp. are joining development forces
to incorporate Intel's 3-D graphics technology into Macromedia's
Shockwave Player, the companies said in a joint announcement
Monday...
Downey Jr. Enters Drug Center
- Actor Robert Downey Jr. checked into a
residential drug treatment facility as part of a ``self-imposed
recovery program'' after his release from prison, his lawyer said
Thursday. Attorney Robert Waters said Downey decided to return to Walden
House, a facility where he had lived previously while trying to
fight his drug addiction...
Free
(legal) MP3s from
top Bands!
- ZDNet Music has
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your inner DJ!
Blockbuster's
Broadband Future
Recently, it
looked like the
Net would kill the
video-rental
business, but this
giant is
adjusting. Less
than a decade ago,
the video-rental
business was a
hot-growth
industry. On Main
Street USA, the
video store
quickly became as
ubiquitous as the
neighborhood diner
and dry-cleaner.
But then the
Internet arrived
and started to
threaten the
video-rental
industry...
Windows
2001 - A
parody of both
2001: A Space
Odyssey and the
low-quality
products produced
by Microsoft,
Windows 2001 is
the story of a
group of college
roommates who
install BIL 9000
and suffer the
consequences when
they notice that
BIL has begun to
malfunction...
