The process of standardization is complicated, messy, and long. It is really a business and human problem masquerading as a technological one. Standards, unlike the laws of physics, are established through consensus, not discovery. Forming consensus often requires concessions that leave no party happy, which can then result in “forks” as different factions break off. Still, the process is never over. New standards are constantly emerging, with old ones updated and sometimes deprecated (we are slowly moving away from GIF). That the 3D standardization process is beginning decades after virtual
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