X3D Community Blog 
December 19, 2006
X3D Earth and the Geospatial Web - the development of a Web Viewpoint Service?
The Open Geospatial Consortium's current Geospatial Web efforts define standards for delivering 2D map data over the internet. What the Web3D X3D Earth initiative can contribute might be something like a "Web Viewpoint Service" - the ability to query and deliver geospatial data from a perspective other than a 2D bounding box with a zoom function - i.e. the 3D Geospatial Web.
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December 18, 2006
X3D interoperability and widespread deployment as the goals for 2007
The X3D working group is concluding another great year with lots of accomplishments. We have had a steady stream of specification improvements, and currently a stable X3D Revision 2 Amendment 1 (aka X3D version 3.2) is undergoing international ISO review. Viewing tools, authoring tools and content keep getting better and better. More people and more software are adopting X3D. Importers and exporters are becoming robust. The benefits of XML and ability to use other XML-related Web standards are adding lots of value. Specification comments & bug reports steadily keep coming in, making our standard stronger and better each time. We're on our way!
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December 05, 2006
Interactive high-quality audio control using X3D
X3D/VRML has made great strides as standard for creating complex synthesized 3D worlds and visualizations. However it is a different story when it comes to the audio and sound manipulation using X3D. In general, the 3D community has struggled with how to link X3D entities and environments to interactive audio control. We've started a project to integrate FreeWRL with ReWire. This project has the potential to introduce X3D to those who are actually into making or manipulating music, beyond the traditional X3D coder base!
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