VRML does the two-step

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Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML) promises 3D interactivity on the Web. However, version 1.0 fell short of industry expectation, which spurred industry leaders to devise a set of features that promised robust improvements for version 2.0. The VRML Architecture Group (VAG) is responsible for the design of the VRML 2.0 specifications. Microsoft simultaneously announced active VRML specifications, giving the market two equally powerful but incompatible open-industry standards. Further VRML versions and browser incompatibilities are a result of developers who lost patience with the current version and extended the language with their own property enhancements. Macromedia, Sun Microsystems and Netscape Communications will support the VAG specifications while collaborating with Silicon Graphics to design multimedia extensions for Internet programming. Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser will feature the active VRML specification.

Standards, Microsoft Corp., Standard, Standardization, Technology development, Three dimensional displays, MSFT, 3D technology, Virtual reality, Virtual reality technology

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Data based pages

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Real estate research and publishing company Realty Information Group (RIG) uses the InfoPublisher report generating software from PageAhead Software to simplify the production of RIG's 400-page bimonthly Cornerstone catalog of available commercial properties in the Washington, DC, area. The data on each property in the catalog comes from the firm's huge data base. Previously, RIG had a staff of data base programmers to convert the data into a format suitable to the catalog, and graphics were limited. The use of InfoPublisher enables a small team of graphic artists led by production Mgr Matt Wascavage to product RIG's hard-copy and disk-based publications. Wascavage's group now produces the catalogs through the use of InfoPublisher plus Aldus PageMaker for Windows, PhotoStyler and Micrografx's Designer and Charisma. By using InfoPublsher, RIG has reduced its publications budget by $50,000.

Information retrieval services, Miscellaneous publishing, Computer related services, not elsewhere classified, Publishing industry, Usage, Product information, Technology application, Report writing, Cost control, Catalogs, Cost Reduction, Case Study, Real Estate, Report Generation Software, Realty Information Group L.P., PageAhead Software Corp., InfoPublisher (Report generating software)

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Make me a map

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Mapmaker 2.0 ($295; extra data disks, $99 to $245), from Select Micro Systems, lets you create maps to present information graphically. The program requires 512Kbytes. Mapmaker comes with a program disk and three data disks, which contain boundary files from which maps are drawn as well as demographic statistics from sources such as the Department of Commerce and the Census Bureau. Menus and dialog boxes are used, so that creating a map is simple. The product makes it easy for nonartists to create attractive graphics.

Graphics software, Maps (Geography), Evaluation, Cartography, Software Packages, Review, Presentations, Software Selection, Product selection, Performance, Maps, Select Micro Systems Inc., MapMaker 2.0 (Geographic information system)

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