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posted by Editor on Thursday February 28, @01:55PM
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This article on CNET talks about the introduction of Extensible 3D (X3D), a successor to the VRML 3D web programming standard that is designed to work with XML. Although VRML was approved by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) in 1997, and was quickly adopted in the computer-aided design (CAD) market and the military, it failed to gain wide acceptance in mass-market applications such as such as games and e-commerce. One of the major improvements in X3D is reduced resource requirements. While VRML required 2.5 MB, X3D comes in a modular structure built around a small playback engine that requires only 300KB. The new X3D specification describes geometry, animation, data exchange between authoring tools, user interactions with elements in a 3D page (i.e. mouse-overs and click-throughs), and the ability to create X3D components that are linked with databases and other outside sources of information.
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