Open Standards for Real-Time 3D Communication

Essentially, the future of embed gives you the equivalent of the animated .gif option for X3D. Everything interactive you want to do in your scene has got to be in the scene already. Once its loaded, it must be treated as a complete object with no access to its internal properties. But Hey, that is OK, because the .x3d object, like the animated .gif object, can do anything it wants as long as it stays in it's container....