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Universal 3D File Format In The Works
telstar writes "The Register is reporting that more than 30 companies are working together to define a new file format intended to serve as a universal 3D file format. The new file format will be named the 'Universal 3D Format', or U3D. According to the article, they hope to make the new format as standard as MP3 has become for audio, and JPEG has become for 2D images. Interesting that they would choose two lossy media formats as models for comparison."
Not to long ago there was a push for Microsoft to adopt open file formats for their office suite. They naturally didn't follow through.
This is not true. Microsoft did adopt an open file format: XML. However, it is not available in any Office suite except the uber-expensive Professional version. Standard and Basic version do not get it. So, effectively, Microsoft gets to keep their file-format monopoly because the very people most likely to want an open format are the people who'll be least likely to be able to afford it.
In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, Make us your slaves, but feed us. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
What is it today? The whole front page of Slashdot is taken from *yesterday's* Register front page. Pathetic.