COLLADA Contest Winners From Siggraph 2009 31
An anonymous reader writes "COLLADA — the group creating open 3D data standards — announced their latest contest winners at Siggraph 2009. Ordinarily this wouldn't interest me, but the grand prize winner, NaviCAD, really did submit something rather interesting — an iPhone app that lets you explore Google 3D Warehouse models. Of course there's the pinching for zooming in/out, but it also uses the motion sensor to control the view. If you are walking around the inside or outside of a building, as you look around in the real world the view on the iPhone displays the corresponding view."
performance (Score:2, Interesting)
I wonder how well that performs? Collada is rather bulky because it is designed as an intermediate format. You would normally convert it into a more steamlined binary format before actually using it in an app.
Re:Boring. (Score:3, Interesting)
I totally agree.
Not possessing an iPhone, I don't see the point of such an application (I have seen tons of 3D viewers on so much platforms).
BTW, their application is not free (sold on AppStore), and they'll probably license it to Apple.
The second prize seems a lot more impressive: http://3d.athens-agora.gr/index_en.html [athens-agora.gr]
Shouldn't these prizes reward people that don't write commercial applications ?