WINDOWS VISTA AVALON WPF WEB3D GAMES

A bit of background on Web 3D and where Microsoft is going with it. 

INTRODUCTION

IMPORTANT: We are using, at this tutorials serie, the beta version Dec CTP. Some sintax is different for the last WPF version!!!

Web3D has a 10 years history of big disasters. Since the days of the launch of VRML until the phaseouting of the ADOBE web3D product:"Atmosphere" at 2005 , nothing works.

It's important to say that Web3D IS NOT Internet3D. We are talking about a 3D application having a "webpage dependence", not about things like: ActiveWorlds, SecondLife or internet multiplayers games.

One of the last available products for web3D is Shokwave3D, part of Macromedia/ADOBE Director. But it's frozen! We (DMU) have a tutorials serie about Shockwave3D that you can read here. But who knows if the product will be phaseouted soon by ADOBE , like they did with Atmosphere...

Now Microsoft is launching its Web3D. It's part of the new Windows Presentation Foundation (codename:Avalon). It's in Beta phase now. It has a new architecture for the launching of the application: ClickOnce that can be "page dependent". We talk about how to publish WPF applications at our "WPF PROGRAMMING - BASICS" tutorials that you can find at our site (go to this link. ).

At this tutorials serie we will work creating generic applications but you can publish them using Visual Studio, any version.

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