Hi Frank,
I attended a talk at SGI this week on VRML.
President of VRML Consortium spoke, saying the consortium needs to expand its mission to 3D in general, not just VRML and to focus future development of VRML on application areas likely to earn money rather than catering to every request for a feature.
The "VRML Knight" guy could not demo because the Internet connection was down. He gave a philosophical/spiritual talk about using nature as our guide and making easy tools so artists and really apply VRML
A developer from Shout showed some wonderful work in VRML. I think they and Blaxxun are doing the best stuff these days.
http://www.shoutinteractive.com/
infoseek in Japan coming soon, a VRML ap they did in conjunction with searches.
See you soon!
Carrie