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MPEG-4, VRML 2.0 Breathe Life Into Avatars
News Between now and September 24, the VRML/MPEG-4 liaison WG working group is to raise a list of requirements for the MPEG committee, from the VRML community. According to Rob Koenen author of the >MPEG-4 Overview, it is already "heavily influenced...
[August 15, 1997, 8:00]
Five Years Ago: Dimension X Strengthens VRML Creation Line
News This is the first VRML (Virtual Reality Markup Language) application to allow editing and playback to take place in the same environment, without the need to export content from the editor to view in a separate browser, said Dimension X.
[February 27, 2002, 6:01]
MS, Netscape To Collaborate On VRML
News In an unexpected alliance between Web browser rivals, Microsoft Corp.and Netscape Communications Corp.are expected to announce they will cooperate to standardize the 3D graphics language for the Web, known as the virtual reality markup language...
[July 28, 1997, 10:09]
Mac Gets VRML Browsing At Last
News Nearly a year after the launch of VRML 2.0, the de facto standard for creating virtual reality effects on Web pages, Macintosh users are getting the chance to join in the fun. That changed last Friday with the release of a full VRML client...
[July 22, 1997, 16:37]
Swim Through Web Data Or Sink, Warns VRML Guru
News VRML (virtual reality markup language) guru Mark Pesce warned today that better visual interfaces are needed if the Web is to develop. The co-creator of VRML pointed to the exponential growth of documents on the Web since the invention of the first...
[July 3, 1997, 14:56]
SGI Buys VRML Tool Maker Paragraph
News The company bought ParaGraph International Inc.a leading vendor of VRML and three-dimensional software tools, and created a new software business unit to manage it. The ParaGraph technology and products will be managed by SGI's newly formed COSMO...
[May 15, 1997, 9:38]
Microsoft Taps WorldView For IE VRML Viewer
News Available for download now at Microsoft's Web site, WorldView will become the core of Microsoft's VRML 2.0 viewer implementation in IE. WorldView provides navigation controls, speed settings, and a "go to" command that lets users jump within VRML...
[January 28, 1997, 11:21]
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]
British VR Firm Releases 3D Browser
News Superscape's own SVR format and VRML 97. With SGI's withdrawal of funding for Cosmo - the de-facto VRML 97 standard browser - earlier this year, Viscape Universal becomes the only VRML97 browser in corporate development, providing a possible avenue...
[October 5, 1998, 14:54]
A Year Ago: British VR Firm Releases 3D Browser
News Superscape's own SVR format and VRML 97. With SGI's withdrawal of funding for Cosmo -- the de-facto VRML 97 standard browser -- earlier this year, Viscape Universal becomes the only VRML97 browser in corporate development, providing a possible...
[October 4, 1999, 7:00]
Bringing 3D To The Web
News Though a staple in the computer-aided design (CAD) market and the military -- which require the stability of an open standard -- sluggish bandwidth, computing power and consumer demand have kept VRML out of more mainstream consumer computing...
[February 27, 2002, 6:31]
"Thin" Vs. "Fat" Visualization Clients
White Papers While the VRML file format allows distribution of visualization scenes to the Web, the user has no access to the actual underlying data source. The "mapping" of numeric data into geometry format (VRML) takes place at the server side.
[January 19, 2005, 23:00]
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]
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]
Netscape Users Pan Standalone Navigator
News There was more ordure for Netscape from the official VRML mailing list for the lack of support for VRML in the standalone Navigator: "Netscape may have had to make a business decision to unbundle Navigator from Communicator to keep IBM, HP and...
[August 22, 1997, 16:00]
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). X3D could follow VRML 97 in becoming an ISO standard by 2004.
[July 24, 2002, 11:25]
Veitch Speaks: Expect A Net Profit
News The author lists virtual reality markup language (VRML) and push technology as two examples. It wasn't Silicon Graphics' fault that lots of pundits predicted VRML would be all things to all men. I read something the other day that made me laugh.
[November 21, 1998, 14:26]
Good Laptop For Great Price
Member Review Using it for my final-year degree project to run PHP, PERL, VRML and MySQL. Works brilliantly. Have installed Linux on a partition, although I am having some problems with the graphics accelerator being recognised by xserver.
[October 29, 2003, 8:53]
Macromedia Primes FreeHand Studio 7 For 3D Web Explosion
News The package includes the VRML design tool Extreme 3D 2 for creating 3D Web pages and print designs. The program allows users to create 2D and 3D graphics for the Web and print and supports ShockWave, which enables users to incorporate vector and...
[November 5, 1996, 13:46]
Five Years Ago: Microsoft Releases Internet Explorer 3.0 Second Beta
News Other notable features include HTML Layout Control enabling coordinate control over object layout, layering and transparency; the ability to format E-mail in HTML; better sound quality and utilities in the NetMeeting workgroup collaboration...
[July 17, 2001, 7:28]
