San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) February 4, 2006
In todays competitive market – creating, managing and maintaining 3D content remains an expensive commitment, and one that needs to be well managed. Popular proprietary formats have come and gone over the years, with none arising as a bona fide open standard in wide use. When formats change and companies come and go, many users are stranded with no way to reuse valuable 3D data.
The Web3D Consortium and our X3D based solution aim to solve that problem. We provide an extensible architecture for future extensibility. The best of these extensions are collected and submitted for final standardization via an established formal process which includes conformance testing.
Extensible 3D (X3D) is an ISO approved standard for creating real-time 3D content. The standard defines a runtime system and delivery mechanism for networked real time 3D content and applications. It currently supports several file format encodings and programming languages, providing unsurpassed interoperability for 3D data and significant flexibility in manipulating, communicating and displaying scenes interactively. X3D integrates well with the latest advances in graphics hardware, compression and data security to provide the best performance and visual impact in an extensible architecture that supports ongoing evolution. X3D’s XML-encoded scene graph enables 3D to be incorporated into web services architectures and distributed environments, facilitating the movement of 3D data between applications.
It is a cross-platform, hardware independent standard that includes a number of features such as XML integration, multi-texturing, NURBS, and a scripting API that unifies the older VRML Java Scripting Authoring Interface (JSAI) and External Authoring Interface (EAI). Moreover, while VRML 97 requires its browser software to include the specifications entire feature set to be compliant, X3D allows developers to support subsets of its specification (referred to as “Profiles”) composed of modular blocks of functionality (referred to as “Components”). A Profile can specify restrictions on certain features so that browser developers can simplify their implementation or reduce memory requirements. Together, profiles and components allow a range of conformant implementations for different platform and application needs. You cannot only control the size of your content download, but also the size of the software needed to view it.
The X3D Specification (ISO 19776) was approved by the ISO Standards Group in July 2004. For more information about the X3D specification, please visit http://www.web3d.org/x3d/overview.html.
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3D Graphics Interchange and Adoption of XML based X3D Goal of the Web3D Consortium
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