September 04, 2006
The Grid Institute has appointed Tony
Parisi, co- inventor of 3-D for the World Wide Web (Web3D), a
fellowship to participate in the development of a new generation of
interactive and immersive 3-D graphics standards for the Media Grid.
Parisi
is widely recognized as a technology pioneer and accomplished
entrepreneur at the forefront of Internet New Media and real-time 3-D
graphics. He is co-inventor of the Virtual Reality Modeling Language
(VRML) ISO standard for Web-based interactive 3-D, and lead editor and
co-chair of the Extensible 3D (X3D) Specification, the new standard for
Web3D graphics (and official VRML successor) developed by the Web3D
Consortium standards organization. As president and CEO of Media
Machines, a San Francisco company focused on high-performance
standards-based 3-D and integrated rich media core technologies, Parisi
continues to influence standards, technologies and emerging markets for
interactive rich media. In 1995, Parisi founded Intervista Software, an
early innovator in real-time networked 3-D graphics technology that
developed WorldView, the first real-time VRML viewer for Microsoft
Windows. Following his early success with Intervisita, Parisi founded
Media Machines in 2001 where he continues to spearhead the development
of FLUX, a real-time 3-D technology based on open Web3D Consortium
standards.
As a fellow of the Grid Institute Parisi will
participate in the design and development of a new generation of
real-time 3-D, interactive gaming and immersive digital cinema
standards as an invited expert of the following Media Grid Technology
Working Groups:
"We
look forward to collaborating with Tony Parisi and Media Machines to
develop a new breed of standards based on Flux and related 3-D
technologies," said Aaron E. Walsh, director of the Grid Institute's
MediaGrid.org standards organization. "Tony is a true pioneer in the
field of interactive digital media with a solid track record of success
in international standards. We anticipate a long and fruitful
collaboration with Tony and Media Machines as the Media Grid begins to
push the envelope of what's possible with 3-D graphics and interactive
digital media," continued Walsh.
"Combining on-demand
supercomputing power with real-time 3-D rendering on the desktop is a
unique challenge that holds great promise for the computer graphics
industry," said Parisi. "Media Machines will help drive these open
Media Grid standards by leveraging our extensive experience with
real-time 3-D and international standards. By recently releasing our
Flux Player as open source, we have already taken an important step in
this direction."
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