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Many have contacted Apple to request support for the
effort to build the use of 3D on the Macintosh. With their interest in multimedia,
education, and game design, it seems to make sense that Apple would find it in their
interest to support this effort. Here is the situation to-date:
A note from Dennis Holloway:
To: apple@applemarketing.com
cc: iceo@apple.com (Steve Jobs)
Subject: VIDI Presenter Pro Mac 3d Closing?!!!!!!!
Dear Apple Marketing,
As a professional architect I have been using Macs to do ALL of my work from writing,
2D CAD (ClarisCAD, now MiniCAD) and most important of all to me--3D ray traced architectural
modeling with Renderman shaders. The 3D software I use is called VIDI Presenter 3D.
VIDI Presenter 3D is truly a brilliant Macintosh software, which allows me to get
PIXAR quality set renderings and animations that have consistently resulted in my
getting the project I am pursuing. Please see my web site to see what I do with my
Power Mac G3 and VIDI Presenter 3D software:
http://www.taosnet.com/architectVRe/
Now it turns out, due to lack of Apple support that VIDI is closing. Please see the
news release on this on today's Mac Central:
http://www.maccentral.com/news/9812/04.vidi.shtml
and:
http://www.vidi.com/newsletter00.html
I am writing to you to request that Apple Marketing and CEO, Steve Jobs, reverse
ANY decision not to support further Mac 3D support for VIDI, and to help this struggling
company go on to make our Macs the BEST THAT THEY CAN BE!!!!
Sincerely,
(from a Mac Fanatic!!!)
Dennis R. Holloway, Architect
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My Comments:
Dennis is a great 3D modeler and has done great things with our software in
representing ancient Indian habitats, as his website demonstrates. While I do not
blame Apple for not supporting VIDI directly, I do believe that they should have
done more for 3D on the Mac and can do so now supporting the OpenGL standard, releasing
RenderMan with their next OS and bundling our free software as many have suggested.
Here is the extent of Apple's response to Dennis
and others:
Nick,
On your web page you list a few email addresses for people interested in passing
on their feedback about Presenter and 3D on the mac.
I'd like to ask you to remove the Apple email addresses from your site. We are always
interested in feedback on Mac OS and Apple hardware, however emails sent directly
to Steve Jobs' account or the Apple marketing accounts are not an effective way to
provide that feedback.
Quite frankly, the best way to provide that feedback is through your web page itself.
It's a single source of information on a single subject, well organized and easily
accessible. For example, I went to your web site when you first made your decision,
since it was reported at other link sites. I was able to understand the issues, and
able to forward one link to others I thought may be interested. Emails don't have
the same impact, particularly when they're aimed at addresses that already handle
a very high volume.
Thanks for your cooperation,
C.K. Haun
Director
Worldwide Developer Technical Support
I responded to C.K. Haun saying that I agreed
to remove the email addresses for Steve Jobs and Apple Marketing with the understanding
that Apple would get back to us regarding supporting 3D on the Macintosh. There still
is no word from Apple on supporting 3D on the Macintosh, but there is a welcome response
from Apple founder Steve Wozniak shown below. Some have suggested that we resume
the email effort tp persuade Apple. Let
me know what do you think?
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