T3D What's this?

[john bercovitz <bercov@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

http://www.imaging-resource.com/EVENTS/PMAS99/PMAS99A.HTM

About 2/3 of the way down the page:

> The second product (on the left) was one we've mentioned previously, 
> but the press release we received set a whole new standard for 
> vagueness, simply stating that a special flash head and some 
> MetaCreations software technology would allow the creation of 3-D 
> objects. What MetaFlash actually does is a little bit more 
> impressive. Just two photographs (corrected 02/20/98 - it actually 
> takes five photographs) of an object taken with the 
> Minolta/MetaFlash combination is enough for MetaCreations' 
> technology to build a full 3-dimensional, texture-mapped wireframe 
> of an object.
> 
> This wireframe can then be streamed in real-time over the Internet 
> (it really has to be seen to be understood, but the 3D image loads 
> in gradually, somewhat like a progressive JPEG or interlaced GIF) 
> using MetaCreations' MetaStream - which is to be shipped by 
> Microsoft in Windows98 and Windows2000. This is one upcoming 
> technology that is very likely to succeed!


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