9 Comments

• Ben Hayat 10 Feb 2009
  And I'm sure it will get even better with the support of 3D in SL3. Perfect timing.
  You asked to name a product to use this engine for, but I'm going change the perspective a bit and see it's usage from another angle.
  I as a software developer see my screen as a 2D rectangular canvas where I show my forms, data, images and basically communicate with my users via screen. That's the only thing I have to to my communication.
  Now, what I want to do, is to use this engine to create a 3D scene where I can put things (forms, images, etc) in distant horizon, or to left or right or top or bottom (like a ceiling or floor of a room). And then bring them closer for use and then push them back when not in use.
  You remember the very first demo you guys made with a room, furniture and rotating cube, hell let's bring it back and do something new with this engine.
  That's what I want to do...
  
• Szymon 10 Feb 2009
  My guess is that this will be used for 3D charts :-)
• Paul Hopper 10 Feb 2009
  3D has a lot applications, but I could easily see this 3D feature being applied to RadCharts for Silverlight, allowing users to interact with and change the perspective of 3D graphs.
• Vladimir Milev 11 Feb 2009
  Looks like this was an easy one :-)

  Szymon, please submit a support ticket to arrange the details for the T-Shirt!

  
  

  Others, keep up the good ideas where the engine could be used and you may also win a t-shirt :).
• Ken Pespisa 11 Feb 2009
  The first thing that comes to mind when seeing this 3D model is for products on an ecommerce site.  Users could get a more realistic view of a product they're interested in.  I know this exists somewhere, but it seems pretty rare right now.
  
  Speaking more towards Telerik products, how about using it with the RadRotator?  Not just for spinning text, which would get boring (remember the old Windows NT screensaver?), but rather to do some classy yet eye-catching rotations. 
  
  Getting even further "out there", what about a 3D Gridview?  Either for specialized applications where you need three dimensions of rows, columns, and sheets?  Or in a more practical manner, perhaps just adding a clearer depth effect when you're nesting grids within each other.  It's kind of hard to look at right now if you have 3 nested grids, but could look pretty slick if it were in 3D.
• David 11 Feb 2009
  A little more complicated but how about a 3d modeling or cad control.
• Timmy Kokke 13 Feb 2009
  First thing that comes to mind is a 3D Rubik's Cube ;-)
  
  I'm forseeing lots uses of 3D in Silverlight. I like to see visualisation of architecture. People like to know what's being build next to their homes and what projects the goverment is spending money on. There are some implementations of this, but they all need specialized plugins.  I think Silverlight can be the successor of VRML.
• Ben Hayat 13 Feb 2009
  Timmy, I agree with you that SL (and hopefully, Telerik's 3D engine) could be the successor to VRML. I can see some great applications being built. For example being able to change color of the car or boat or a personal airplane at runtime and then look at it in 3D or change the seat or interior and be able to view it from different angle.
  
  There was a contract position to develop a browser app for an Aircraft company to be able to allow users to pick and choose certain components. The project ended up being dome in Java and I think they used VRML and the company paid a lot of money for that. I think if SL was ready, it could have been done with SL and look a thousad times better.
  
• Roland 24 Feb 2010
  Hi Vladimir
  
  What is the status of the telerik 3D Engine today?