[crizzlenizzle]

I remember seeing VRML as a kid and I was mindblown. If I recall correctly, it ran in IE 4 with an add-on. I really thought, only a few more weeks and I can build games like Doom myself running in a browser.

Well, with my assessment I was off over a decade lol.

Last week I went to some meetup and met a young guy raving about every website is going to be VR in about two years. I didn’t even know about VRML.

[hnlmorg]

I built an entire website in VRML. It was fun.

I recall the biggest hindrance to VRML, aside requiring a plugin, was that most computers didn’t have hardware acceleration for 3D rendering. So performance was too poor to do anything useful for wide audiences.