X3D News Archive April 2007
Apr 30, 2007
The special issue Web3D Technologies for Learning, Education and Training of the Computers & Education journal is finally out. Web3D Consortium members Luca Chittaro and Roberto Ranon have been the guest editors and the extended introduction to the topic they wrote for the issue can be read here: Intro to Web3D Technologies for Learning, Education and Training
Also, the new book on The Adaptive Web published by Springer includes a long chapter on “Adaptive 3D Web Site”. The chapter can be read here.
Apr 19, 2007
The Web3D Consortium and the Khronos Group initiate cooperation to accelerate market adoption of pervasive connected 3D; Initial focus is synergy between X3D and COLLADA.
17th April, 2007 - Web3D Symposium, Perugia, Italy - The Khronos Group and the Web3D Consortium announced today that they have executed a liaison agreement to enable the flow of draft specifications and feedback between the two organizations. This liaison will enable cooperative initiatives to align and combine the use of standards from both groups to drive the growth of connected 3D on mobile and embedded devices as well as on the Web. The initial focus of this liaison is to leverage the existing synergy between the X3D and COLLADA standards from Web3D and Khronos respectively. A white paper exploring how these two standards complement each other can be found here: .
Apr 16, 2007
As first part of our AR/VR Framework we, the Fraunhofer IGD, is releasing a beta of our desktop/standalone- player for OSX, Windows and Linux (almost) to the public. Since we use a superset of X3D as an application description language, this player should be able to process most of the available X3D data.
Fraunhofer IGD would like to ask the x3d/vrml community members to test the player/installer on different machines and x3d data-sets and please give feadback in the forums. The goal is to find the biggest bugs and the best linux-distributions for everybody in the first cycle. Afterwards IGD is going to release the missing AR/VR modules and parts of the framework.
About the license: Unfortunately we can not opensource all parts (yet). However: one of the biggest and most interesting parts is already open-source with a LGPL OpenSG license. There will be free but unsupported binary releases for non-commercial use only. Commercial packages will be available with a different license model.
Apr 16, 2007
Any Web application of significance needs to support network standards to be effective as a multiuser application connecting users to each other, to external components and to Web services. The X3D Networking Working Group is chartered with developing an efficient, flexible and robust means for distributed application components and applications to inter-operate through improved networking capability. It also aims to be easy for content developers to use and develop with. This will be complementary to the existing Web browser API based architecture for external communication capability (via the external SAI). Members are encouraged to join this new working group.
Apr 04, 2007
Dr. Remi Arnaud from Sony CE and Tony Parisi of Media Machines Inc., and a Web3D board member, have collorarated on a white paper that sheds light on the compatible relationship between COLLADA and X3D. Both COLLADA and X3D are royalty-free open standards that use XML schema technology to represent 3D content. This whitepaper will assist developers in understanding the similarities and differences between COLLADA and X3D, the design goals that informed their development, and how and where the two standards can be used together as a powerful tool set for developing Web and enterprise applications.
Apr 03, 2007
This contract has been awarded by the Telemedicine and Advanced Technology and Research Center Grant to enable the visualization of medical images from CT, MRI and other imaging devices which output the DICOM standard format in 3D with full volume rendering capabilities within a X3D browser. This project will enable the visualization of medical images from CT, MRI and other imaging devices which output the DICOM standard format in 3D with full volume rendering capabilities within a X3D browser. A MedX3D profile of the X3D specification, links to anatomic ontologies and import/export libraries to ease 3rd party development will also be created. Michael Aratow, MD, FACEP, co-chair of the Medical Working Group, will be Principal Investigator on the project, and through a competitive proposal process within the Consortium membership, Yumetech, Inc., Leonard Yencharis, Media Machines, Inc. and SenseGraphics AB were awarded funding to perform the specific tasks. Due for completion in Summer 2007, this project will enable the Web3D Consortium to enable the delivery of 3D reconstructed medical images to the desktop within an ISO ratified, open, royalty free standard environment.
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