My apologies for the randomness of the title, I thought this would be the best place to ask.
JSR-184 is a file format and API that will be used on mobile phones for 3D content. It would be cool if Blender could export to the format it loads (a binary one), which can hold a full scene graph etc.
The obvious way to go about this is Python. I was wondering if anyone else had thought of trying this before I go and reinvent the wheel.
Cheers, kt.
This sounds intersting. I am very curious about mobile graphics format. I am also very uneducated about mobile graphics formats. Between 3GPP and MPEG4, I can’t tell you which way is up. There is a worldwide awareness of mobile devices such as phones and PDAs that take pictures. I am interested in the new wave of devices that will incorporate video and gaming. I tend to believe people will love to see the new Matrix Reheated trailer or get in on a Unreal Tournament 3000 game session, with competitors from around the world. No need to lug around you 19-inch laptop Pentium X, just pull out your phone or PDA and jump right in while traveling, waiting for their next “power meeting” or sitting around with nothing to do. Can we say global reach, global exposure, global marketplace.
If you could point out some URLs of standards, concepts and major players of this JSR-184 protocol that would be great. At the same time I am interested in what the movie, print, gaming, telecom and internet communities sees as the emerging standards for video and gaming on portable devices. Sure there will be the platform battle between Windows, Unix and OpenSource; Java, VB and C++. No one wants to create “consumer” betamax movies. Although “professional” footage on (Digi) beta (SP) has a market.
I don’t mean to challenge anyone personally. I just want to get a good idea of markets and needs of these markets. All replies ar greatly appreciated.
The whole 3gpp/mpeg4 thing has me totally confused as well. There’s a big patent fight over MPEG4 upsetting lots of people.
As for JSR-184 . . .
http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=184
http://www.nokia.com/nokia/0,,42207,00.html
http://www.superscape.com/products/standards/
Thanks for the links Kid Tripod. Intersting. I found this info on Nokia’s site about 3D screensavers:
http://www.forum.nokia.com/main/0,6566,034-64,00.html
It would be interesting to see if someone could write a Python script to do this for Blender instead of 3DS Max. I don’t know how different Max is from Blender, I’m sure there are big differences.
I am posting this here as it relates to someone maybe developing a Python script. I may start a topic in Off-Topic about JSR-184, MPEG4, 3GPP and mobile media in general.