Re: [Plug] snowcrash/carmack

["Nick R" <laktar@hotmail.com>]

Well, he didn't exactly say that was his top priority or anything, just that 
he might take on VRML to make it not suck and that people were focussing too 
much on establishing VRML standards and not enough on actually making it 
viable.

       -Laktar, a.k.a. Nick Rosen, laktar.dyndns.org


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> From: Darxus <darxus@op.net>
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> Subject: [Plug] snowcrash/carmack
> Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 15:23:27 -0400 (EDT)
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> Wow... the Almighty Carmack wants to make Snowcrash a reality.
> http://slashdot.org/interviews/99/10/15/1012230.shtml
>
> In Carmack's on words "Making Snow Crash into a reality feels like a sort
> of moral imperative to a lot of programmers, but the efforts that have
> been made so far leave a lot to be desired."
>
> Snowcrash is the only book I've read twice.  It's got an awesome virtual
> reality world, called The Strip.  I've found that I'm far from the only
> one who wants to make it happen.
>
> Carmack is the 3d graphics engine genious of id (www.idsoftware.com),
> creators of Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, and Quake.
>
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