X3D News Archive July 2005
Jul 26, 2005
There is a meeting for all members of the Web3D Consortium at Siggraph on Monday August 1, 10:30AM - noon. Location: Sheraton Los Angeles Hotel, Santa Monica Room. All Web3D Consortium members are invited to attend to learn about the status of the standard, the new membership agreements, new working groups, and to voice your views about the workings of the organization.
Also be sure to check out the many BOFs at SIGGRAPH including:
Medical Working Group BOF
Monday August 1, 9-10 am
LA Convention Center, Rm 506- “X3D Tools, Tips, Techniques, and Futures”
Wednesday August 3, 10:30-noon
LA Convention Center, Rm 511C - “Extensions for Interactivity in X3D”
Wednesday August 3, 11:00-noon
Holiday Inn City Center, Rm San Jose B - CAD Working Group BOF
Wednesday August 3, 4-5:30 pm
LA Convention Center, Rm 506
Jul 25, 2005
In order to make the development of a VR application more accessible to non-VR experts and to reduce the time and cost of the development in general, there is a real need for methodologies and tools which will facilitate the design of a VR application. This Workshop on Methods and Tools for Designing VR applications aims at addressing these issues. It will be held in conjunction with the VSMM2005 on Oct 3, 2005, in Ghent, Belgium. This is a call for paper submissions due by 8th of August, 2005.
Jul 20, 2005
The new Web3D Consortium organizational structure and membership policies have been posted. A summary document describes the new organization, procedures and processes. It also gives an introduction to the Members Agreement, Bylaws and IP Guidelines as well as some working processes and details not contained in the legal Member Agreement document.
The new Member Agreement clearly defines benefits and participation rights for each level of membership. It also includes the Consortium By-Laws, and Intellectual Property Rights policy.
The Consortium is an open organization that any interested entity may join. A number of membership tiers provide well-defined privileges. In addition, the Consortium outreaches to the wider industry via a series of widening circles of participation.
Jul 06, 2005
WireFusion 4.1 allows 3D artists, web developers and programmers to easily create interactive Web3D presentations from their X3D and VRML models, and to combine them with MP3 audio, streaming MPEG video and Flash animations. For viewing it uses Java so no plug-in download is required and presentations can be viewed in any Java 1.1 enabled browser on any platform. The latest release adds a Linux version in addition to Mac OS X and Windows.
Jul 01, 2005
Entries for the X3D modeling contest to produce high-fidelity models of actual diamonds are due July 20th. Contestants will use the basic 3D geometry of a round brilliant diamond and inspect a reasonable facsimile, then model the diamond in full detail and render it using X3D in a 3D browser of their choice. If you are looking for examples of 3D modeled diamonds, check out TurboSquid. Grand prize is a $3000 diamond gift certificate.
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