When I was younger, I was impressed by the technical feat of demos like this.
Nowadays, while still impressive, the technical mystery has faded somewhat. What's even more impressive to me though is the discipline, time and motivation management to deliver something of this caliber. Hats off!
I agree, except when we were younger, these were also greater technical feats.
Back when VRML was trying to be a thing, I suggested "they" stop wasting their time on uber nerdy games with arcane controller patterns, and just produce a 3D window manager with really nice transitions to use for ordinary desktop things.
VRML was definitely weird / ahead of its time. Reading about it at the time, and only having modest hardware, I was under the impression that the powerful machines back then could render VR in realtime. Heh 20+ years later and we're still not fully there yet.
Nowadays, while still impressive, the technical mystery has faded somewhat. What's even more impressive to me though is the discipline, time and motivation management to deliver something of this caliber. Hats off!