Salinas, California 36°40′40″N121°39′20″W / 36.67778°N 121.65556°W / 36.67778; -121.65556
Official language
English
President
Nicholas Polys
Website
web3d.org
Web3D Consortium is an international not-for-profit, member-funded industry consortium, originally founded in 1997. Web3D Consortium members from governmental, nonprofit and research organizations worldwide, including working alongside individual professional members to collaborate in a consensus process and encouraging development and implementation of open standards for 3D content and services.[1]
The Web3D Consortium promotes deployment of X3D standards for the communication of 3D scenes in multiple applications, use cases, platforms, and verticals. Members collaboratively develop the X3D standards and tools making them widely adopted across diverse markets for academia, government, industry, and individuals. The Web3D Consortium offers robust ISO standardized 3D functionality and long-term stability for enterprise solutions and interoperability with other 3D standards.
The Consortium defines and develops the X3D royalty-free open standards file format and runtime architecture to represent and communicate 3D scenes. The development of 3D web-based graphics has evolved from its beginnings as the Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML) to Extensible 3D (X3D). Over recent years, advances in real time graphics and networking technology, and most notably the emergence of the Extensible Markup Language XML, have heavily influenced the development of the ISO-approved, freely available, X3D open standard. X3D embodies best practices in commercial real time graphics within the widely adopted framework of the World Wide Web family of technologies and standards and has no intellectual property restrictions. It provides a system for the storage, retrieval and playback of real time graphics content embedded in applications, all within an open architecture to support a wide array of domains and user scenarios.[2]
Web3D applications have been active for some time. Previously known as the VRML Consortium, this community spearheaded the development of the VRML 1.0 and 2.0 specifications, which provide the basis for the development of associated applications. The organizations involved in this effort felt that the creation of an open consortium focused exclusively on Web3D would provide the structure necessary to stabilize, standardize, and nurture the technology for the entire community. Today, the Web3D Consortium is utilizing its broad-based industry support to develop the X3D specification as a successor to VRML for communicating 3D on the web, between applications and across distributed networks and web services.
Related to its educational mission, the Consortium maintains an extensive website of documents and links related to VRML and X3D resources, including plugins and browsers from many long-term members and open source developers.
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for the beta release of Netscape 2.0 by Netscape Communications. The Web3DConsortium was formed to further the collective development of the format. VRML...
interactive network-capable 3D data. X3D version 4.0 has been approved by Web3DConsortium, and is under final review by ISO/IEC as a revised International Standard...
while realtime 3D graphics kept improving. The VRML Consortium changed its name to the Web3DConsortium, and began work on the successor to VRML—X3D. SGI...
Language Web3DConsortium Web Browsers ISO Standard 14772-1:1997 .wrz VRML Compressed Web3DConsortium Web Browsers .x3d, .x3db, .x3dv Extensible 3D Web3D Consortium...
directionsmag.com. Retrieved August 19, 2021. "Khronos Outlook and Web3DConsortium Town Hall". web3d.siggraph.org. Archived from the original on November 28, 2020...
Animation Working Group Archived 2012-06-26 at the Wayback Machine Web3DConsortium X3D Specification ISO/IEC 19774:2006 Humanoid Animation (H-Anim) version...
accelerated 3D graphics with JavaScript VRML and X3D - Open standard from Web3DConsortium List of WebGL frameworks O3D Beach Demo on YouTube O3D Project Page...
2011-06-26. IPO banks dispute about IPO failure "Web3d-fr - Statement blaxxun technologies GMBH for Web3d-fr Dr. Wolfgang Salzmann/CEO". Archived from the...
graphics technology. From 1997–2005, Trevett served as president of the Web3DConsortium. Trevett was elected president of the Khronos Group in 2001, where...
inclusion of CSS defines the look and layout of content. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), former maintainer of the HTML and current maintainer of the CSS...
specification of its syntax or semantics. While Bert Bos of the World Wide Web Consortium has produced a Document Type Definition that includes syntax for the blink...
Wide Web Consortium and other standardization bodies such as the Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group, the Unicode Consortium, the Internet...
The standards organization for the World Wide Web, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), recommends that every image displayed through HTML have an alt...
Siggraph Art Show in 2000. It was sponsored by ACM Siggraph and the Web3DConsortium, presented as an installation, part of the Siggraph Art Show, New Orleans...
fifth and final major HTML version that is now a retired World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) recommendation. The current specification is known as the HTML Living...
WHATWG was formed in response to the slow development of World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web standards and W3C's decision to abandon HTML in favor of XML-based...
BabylonJS, PlayCanvas, three.js, OSG.JS, Google’s model-viewer and CopperLicht. Web3D also made a project called X3DOM to make X3D and VRML content run on WebGL...
Wide Web Consortium. Retrieved 23 February 2011. Dubost, Karl (24 October 2005). "How to Add a Favicon to your Site". World Wide Web Consortium. Retrieved...
weather forecast. Use of meta refresh is discouraged by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), since unexpected refresh can disorient users. Meta refresh also...
principal standardization of the DOM was handled by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which last developed a recommendation in 2004. WHATWG took over...
specified. "XHTML Basic 1.1, W3C Recommendation 29 July 2008". World Wide Web Consortium. 2008-07-29. Retrieved 2010-05-06. Open Mobile Alliance W3C Recommendation...
cookies respectively. Web Storage is standardized by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and WHATWG, and is supported by all major browsers. Web storage...
predictable. The CSS specifications are maintained by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Internet media type (MIME type) text/css is registered for use...
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