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2016 Oct 10
Friday 14 October 2016 is World Standards Day! ISO will tweet about it all week.

This Friday 14 October 2016 is World Standards Day! ISO will tweet about it all week.

2016 Oct 7
Bye Bye plugins!

Cobweb v2.1 now supports Firefox, Chromium, Google Chrome, Opera, Windows 10 Microsoft Edge.

2016 Aug 1
What a great and eventful week at Web3D 2016 and SIGGRAPH 2016! Truly demonstrating 3D for ALL. The high quality of the papers, presentations and discussions make us the leading forum for Web3D researchers, providers and users to meet, discuss and test the advancement of 3D on the Web. We would like to thank all our presenters and the Web3D community for their commitment and continued support of our vision for an open 3D Web.
Congratulations to our winners Best Paper: Social Street View: Blending Immersive Street Views with Geo-tagged Social Media Ruofei Du and Amitabh Varshney
2016 Jul 18
Web3D Consortium will showcase open interactive and Immersive 3D solutions for the Web. Prepare to be amazed by the depth and breadth of this Web3D graphics community at Web3D 2016 and SIGGRAPH 2016 conferences in Anaheim, California - July 22-28, 2016 . This year’s theme “3D for All” emphasizes the importance of 3D graphics and printing, including virtual and augmented reality for use in various application domains, including: industry, medicine, entertainment, education, social interactions, and geographical information systems. Join us to build the future 3D Web!

Web3D Consortium (http://www.web3d.org) and ACM SIGGRAPH will showcase interactive and immersive 3D solutions at Web3D 2016/22-24 July (http://www.web3d2016.org) and SIGGRAPH 2016/25-28 July (

2016 Jun 22
Web3D 2016 Conference - Regular registration ends 1 July 2016. Web3D 2016 an annual international conference for 3D Graphics and interactive techniques celebrates it’s 21st year. This year’s theme — “3D for All” — emphasizes the importance 3D graphics.

ACM Web3D 2016 Conference co-located with SIGGRAPH  is around the corner.

2016 Jun 1
Explore innovative 3D solution and technologies including Virtual Reality.

Web3D 2016‬ Conference. Early Registration Discount Ends June 3!

2016 Mar 21
Winners of the March 2016 VR Hackathon in San Francisco. This weekend of innovation was kicked off on Friday evening March 11, 2016 at the Microsoft reactor's Space with a Meetup mixer. 19 teams launched into their projects Saturday morning and kept up the pace of production until Sunday’s cut-off time when judging began.Thank you judges for deliberating and selecting our winners.

Congratulations! To our winners.

Best VR Project Award - FlowArena: Multi-user, multi-perspective multi-headset WebvR dodger game 

2016 Mar 2
Web3D 2016 Conference announces its call for Papers, Posters, Tutorials, and Workshops. The Conference is from 22-24 July 2016 in Anaheim, California, USA.
2016 Feb 29
John Carlson and Andreas Plesch are major contributors in the X3D Graphics community. The Web3D Consortium is proud to recognize their important efforts and award them with Professional Membership for 2016.

The Web3D Consortium members work closely with community participants to advance 3D Graphics on the Web.  The Extensible 3D (X3D) Graphics International Standard has always been spurred forward by volunteer contributions and broad public review.

2016 Feb 28
Dr. Nicholas Polys, President of the Web3D Consortium presents at Federal In-service Training day for AEC - February 23, 2016

Dr. Nicholas Polys recently returned from the Federal In-service Training day where he showcased the convergence of digital and physical infrastructure via Extensible 3D (X3D).

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