Overview

SIGGRAPH 2008 the biggest graphics industry gathering is just weeks away! and Web3D Consortium is geared up to showcase innovative X3D content and applications and wow the 3D graphics community. This year, the consortium celebrates its 10th anniversary with a bigger presence in the 3D graphics industry. We will have our best ever tech talk with over 10 presenters showcasing their innovations. Attend our informative Tutorials and Bofs. Take a break from the show floor and join us at our reception and network with leading Web3D technologist. Vist our booth (#139) and meet our member companies and see their X3D product demos. A must attend event!!! SEE YOU AT SIGGRAPH 2008.

Special thanks to our member sponsors Octaga for sponsoring the reception, NPS for the X3D-Showcase DVD and Fraunhofer for the Web3D Tri-fold brochure.

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Table of Contents

Tech Talk
X3D-Plugfest
Booth #139
Raffle and Reception
Member Sponsors
Tutorials and Panels
Birds of a Feather
SIGGRAPH Floor Map
Web3D Symposium 2008 co-located at SIGGRAPH

Web3D Tech Talk

Wednesday, August 13 from 3:30 - 5:30 PM       Location: Hall G, Room 1

X3D: The Real-Time 3D Solution for the Web

Siggraph 2008 Web3D Tech Talk Podcast

The Web3D Consortium celebrates its 10th anniversary with its best ever Web3D Tech Talk. The tech talk will show case Web3D technology such as X3D and VRML that make web graphics easy and fun to deploy. Use of X3D is growing with content and applications in various sectors and across all hardware platforms. Join a large innovative community of content and application developers who see this standard as the future for deployment of real-time 3D graphics applications. Come see our X3D innovators show off their latest real-world 3D applications and content, and find out how you can use X3D for your 3D graphic needs.

2008 Presenters:

Mike Aratow: Rationale for 3D standard for 3D medical imaging

Johannes Behr of Fraunhofer: Beyond the Web Browser - X3D used for Virtual and Augmented reality

David Bruner of [TC]2: X3D Avatar from 3D Body Scans for the web

Don Brutzman of NPS: X3D Authoring and Conversion using X3D-Edit and X3D for Web Authors

Jean-Michel Flamant of Idées-3com: X3D to answer the needs for 3D

Damon Hernandez: X3D - The introduction to the open 3d web

Alan Hudson of Yumetech: X3D Editors and Applications

Christophe Mouton of EDF: X3D – A 3D standard for collaborative scientific visualization

Espen Ottar of Octaga: Bringing Enterprise data to life

Tony Pack of Geoscience Australia: Shake, Rattle and Roll – using X3D to display and review seismic data

Tony Parisi of Vivaty: An Open Approach to Building Worlds for the Web

Peter Schickel of Bitmanagement: X3D - A solution to visualize 3D content for the Web and Mobile

Our 2006 and 2007 Web3D Tech Talk events were a big success. Check out our Siggraph 2007 Web3D Tech Talk podcast. We plan to build a podcast this year too.

Web3D Raffle and reception

Join us for our raffle drawing of X3D products and a reception after the Tech Talk and network with leading web3D technologists and make new connections and renew old friendships. Special thanks to our member sponsor Octaga for sponsoring the reception.

X3D Plugfest at Web3D Symposium

Saturday, August 9 from 3:30 pm - 5:30 pm       Location: Medium Room

X3D Plugfest Podcast

X3D content authors come and bring your favorite content to help improve browsers. Talk with X3D Browser Implementers and learn how to get your content viewing across all browsers.

Come join X3D vendors in testing X3D browser interoperability. This event will test how browsers are playing the same content. Bring your content to help improve browsers. Spec authors and browser implementors will be here to debate the finer points of the X3D specification and to defend their interpretations. Coming from the event we'll have a better understanding of what content works right between browsers and where the spec and implementations need more work. Presubmitted content will receive priority. We expect that we will run out time so presubmission is strongly recommended. This will allow everyone to have more time to review the material before hand. We expect to uncover the following types of issues:

Browser Bugs

Specification interpretation issues

Specification Errors

Invalid Content

This year we'd like to concentrate on X3D Interactive and Immersive level content. Ideally we'd like simple content that shows a single issue of concern. Please email your problem content to Alan Hudson. Include a description of the problem and the results from the browsers you've tested. Specify whether the content can be released publically or just distributed to browser implementors for testing. Ideally we would like the content by August 4th, if time permits we'll look at newly submitted material at the event.
Please join us at the Web3D Symposium to see the results and work through the issues. A report will be generated from the meeting detailing the issues found and the recommendations.

Web3D Consortium Booth #139 - X3D Technology Exhibit

Meet the Web3D Consortium team in booth #139 at SIGGRAPH 2008 and become a part of this emerging standard. Come see our X3D innovators show off their latest real-world 3D applications and content, and find out how you can use X3D for your real-time 3D graphic needs. Web3D consortium will also host member companies to exhibit their X3D based technologies in our booth (#139). Technologies to be exhibited are Medical imaging, Scientific visualization, Geospatial, 3D education and CAD.
Experience the brand new Octaga Enterprise suite which is Octaga's most advanced 3D visualization solution used by Shell as their 3D visualization solution to support the maintenance of the Ormen Lange Gas field processing plant.
Bitmanagement will showcase textured 3D models of complete cities constructed automatically and visualized with the high performing BS Contact GeoVRML/X3D viewer interactively on the web.
Fraunhofer will amaze you with its augmented reality demonstration using pre-computed radiance transfer to simulate reflection of surrounding real light on the virtual object that is merged into the real scene.
Yumetech will be demonstrating applications developed using its Xj3D and ChefX3D toolkits, see several new applications being developed using these toolkits including domain specific editors for mass market 3D printing.

Web3D Booth Partners and Sponsors

               

               

SIGGRAPH 2008 Floor Map

Floor Map

Web3D Symposium and SIGGRAPH Tutorials and Panels

Date & Time	Title	Meeting contacts	Room
Saturday 9 August 9:00 am-10:30 am	X3D Event Animation, Scripting and Prototype Extensibility Description:Learn how to build an X3D world, while getting a detailed understanding of the capabilities of X3D.		Web3D Symposium Medium Room
Saturday 9 August 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm	Ajax3D for Web-Based Virtual Worlds Description: Skills and techniques for integrating interactive 3D scenes, 2D web pages, and web servers into virtual world applications.		Web3D Symposium Medium Room
Sunday 10 August 9:00 am-10:30 am	Immersive and Augmented Reality with X3D Description: W3C technologies snd X3D's programming model for virtual and augmented environments.		Web3D Symposium Medium Room
Sunday 10 August 11:00 am-12:30 pm	Mashups of X3D-Earth Description:Overview of the X3D-Earth Specification and how-to demonstrations and examples of data mashups with X3D Earth.		Web3D Symposium Medium Room
Tuesday August 12 3:45 pm-5:30 pm	As the World Turns: Debating & Examining Online Digital Earth Technologies Impact on Society Description:Panelists demonstrate their digital earth systems and debate how mapping and connectedness will evolve.		502 B

Web3D BOF's

Date & Time	Title	Meeting contacts	Room
Tuesday 12 August 10:00 am-11:30 am	Web3D Consortium Member Meeting Description: Come meet Web3D consortium members and network with some of the leading experts in Web3D technology. Learn more about member benefits and the X3D standard and how you can contribute to Consortium specifications before public deployment.		501 A
Tuesday 12 August 10:30 am-12 noon	X3D Medical Working Group Description: The X3D Medical Working Group (MWG) focuses on developing a standard for 3D medical images on the web based on the X3D standard, and has proposed a draft extension to the X3D specification to include volume rendering capabilities to view these images. Join us for a discussion and demonstration of MedX3D (the proposed X3D profile for viewing 3D medical images), the MWG's activities with the DICOM standards organization, a review of the volume rendering extension to X3D and the future projects of the MWG.		507
Tuesday 12 August 12:30 pm- 2:30 pm	ACM SIGGRAPH Carto BOF Annual Meeting Description: The "Carto Project" is in collaboration with the International Cartographic Association's (ICA) Commission on Visualization and the GeoVRML Working Group of the Web 3D Consortium. The project seeks viewpoints from the computer graphics community on technology (including hardware and software) and techniques that will impact and can be applied to cartographic visualization.		501 A
Tuesday 12 August 2:00 pm-3:30 pm	Teaching Math Through Game Development Description: A case study on the use of X3D-engine, Dynamic-X3D, and X3D-edit in Video Game Design and Development.		507
Wednesday 13 August 10:30 am-12 noon	Web3D CAD Working Group Description: The Web3D Consortium's CAD group will hold a BOF meeting at Siggraph to update the community on recent developments in the X3D standard. These include a pipeline from Collada to X3D that preserves BREP structures. Several routes from popular CAD tools will be demonstrated to show how to get your CAD data to the web. If you care about how to get CAD data to web visualization systems then join this group to see the latest updates from the consortium.		507
Wednesday 13 August 12:30 pm-2:30 pm	Multiuser Virtual Environments BOF: MUVE MOOT Meet and discuss Multiuser Virtual Environments (MUVEs) and demonstrate your work. Topics of interest can be application related: such as MUVEs in art, education, entertainment or business, or technical, such as modelling or protocols for MUVEs. Whether your interest is in standards or just playing, whether you are involved in multiuser games, online virtual worlds, collaborative or business applications, please come and share your thoughts and demo your work!		507
Thursday August 14 10:30 am-12 noon	Real-time, Interactive, Animated, Extensible 3D Graphics (X3D) Description: The X3D Working Group BoF is an open meeting for everyone interested in real-time, interactive, animated, extensible 3D Graphics for the Web. There will be presentations and demonstrations on X3D applications, X3D Earth, Collada interoperability, new capabilities and ongoing development.		501A
Thursday 14 August 3:30 pm-5:00 pm	X3D Humanoid Animation Description: The X3D H-Anim working group would like to host X3D Humanoid Animation BOF where we will discuss and demonstrate the use of H-Anim character animation within X3D based applications. We want to look at pipeline issues, and the use of Collada in the migration of character content from the standard DCC tools into the H-Anim format. We also want to hear about your comments, concerns, and desires regarding H-Anim.		507

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