Is it finally time for 3D online? - page 2 | Newsmakers | CNET News.com: "What's your opinion of (Microsoft's upcoming graphics system) Avalon? Parisi: At the risk of sounding too technical, it's BS 3D. You can drop in a cube or a sphere and drop some video on it, and they're calling that 3D. If you want to develop any kind of 3D that has complex objects or behaviors or a rich 3D environment, what they don't tell you is that you then have to write code to that. You're basically writing C# or C ."