Adobe to update Atmosphere w/ new technology
updated 04:30 pm EST, Tue December 11, 2001
Adobe yesterday also announced it will integrate two technologies with Atmosphere, its system for creating and customizing interactive 3-D communities on the Web. Both Havok's Hard Core Physics Engine and Virtools Inc.'s Virtools Player will "enrich the realism, flexibility, animation and interactivity in immersive 3-D environments on the Web." The system currently includes Atmosphere Builder, the 3-D world authoring tool; Atmosphere Player, the Web browser plug-in; and the Atmosphere Community Server, which enables real time interaction with other users in a shared 3-D Web environment. (Adobe says it is "currently in the process" of building the Mac version for Atmosphere 1.0, which will support Classic mode and says it plans to offer native support for Mac OS X in the next major release.)
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Next major rev for X?
Adobe says it is "currently in the process" of building the Mac version for Atmosphere 1.0, which will support Classic mode and says it plans to offer native support for Mac OS X in the next major release.
Weak! Why wouldn't they develop the versions concurrently? I realize it requires more resources, but that seems a little shortsighted.
I realize not everybody is using X yet, but it seems like Adobe is largely ignoring those of us who do. Illustrator may be out, but Photoshop, their flagship product, won't be released until at least 12 months after X went Golden Master.
But then again, I've never done any MacOS development. Is it realistic to think that carbonization of PS and this product could actually take a company like Adobe this long, or is it most likely a marketing tactic to sell two versions to the same people?