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by Willfire19 3638 days ago
I was too young to ever see or use VRML, but I believe that VR is much more accessible now than it's ever been. At this point, you only need a 3D capable smartphone in order to view VR. Forget the cardboard, you can still use the phone as a small viewport to view the virtual world. Right now, I still feel like VR is a novelty though, kind of like the smartwatch. Sure it's cool, but it's not necessarily a need quite yet.
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Just a thought... I wonder if all the 3-d overlays that the maps apps have now could be dumped to VRML. I presume so. That would allow people to go through maps in VRML, and Google Street View in VRML would be pretty darn cool.
There were some good 3D android offerings (HTC 3D; no glasses and similar to the Nintendo 3DS), but they faded back in the late 2000s