Portals In Space
News And VRML (Virtual Reality Modeling Language) graphics aren't the only suggestion of a back-to-the future strategy: Firmage's plan for a next-generation World Wide Web combines the power of affinity portals, the Mozilla browser, Web directories...
[July 29, 2003, 17:45]
Bringing 3D To The Web
News Virtual Reality Modeling Language is back from the dead -- again. Among its claimed advantages, the new version is designed to work with Extensible Markup Language (XML), which is fast becoming the glue for a wide range of Web documents.
[February 27, 2002, 6:31]
Grady Booch: The Developer's Developer
News You're one of the original authors of the Unified Modeling Language (UML). The chief scientist, since 1980, of development tools specialist Rational Software, which IBM acquired in 2002, Booch is a geek's geek and one of the original developers of...
[September 26, 2007, 17:34]
Is A 3D Web More Than Just Empty Promises?
News The time for 3D on the Web has come, insists Tony Parisi, co-creator of Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML) - this time for real. VRML veterans like Parisi last month marked the tenth anniversary of the language's first commercial implementation.
[May 19, 2005, 11:55]
3D Web Standards Move Closer
News The technology is a descendant, expressed in XML (Extensible Markup Language), of the pioneering but ultimately unsuccessful Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML). A group pushing for industry standards for 3D on the Web released its final...
[July 24, 2002, 11:25]
MPEG-4, VRML 2.0 Breathe Life Into Avatars
News VRML (Virtual Reality Modeling Language) has evolved as the de facto standard for the transmission of 3D data over the Internet. Between now and September 24, the VRML/MPEG-4 liaison WG working group is to raise a list of requirements for the MPEG...
[August 15, 1997, 8:00]
WildTangent Wins Sony Cash For Web Games
News The goal of bringing interactive graphics for the Web has proved an elusive target, and Web 3D applications have earned mostly derision since the failure of the much-hyped VRML (Virtual Reality Modeling Language) to gain widespread adoption.
[April 9, 2001, 10:44]
Intel Heads For 3D Standards War
News Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML) -- which on 24 May celebrated the 10th anniversary of its first public demonstration -- was the first technology to generate hype about the potential of 3D on the Web, only to be met with a decade of...
[June 21, 2004, 10:25]
