Open Standards for Real-Time 3D Communication

 Web3D Siggraph 2007 “Tech Talk” BoF Video Now Available

Sep 25, 2007

Web3D is pleased to announce the availability of our Siggraph 2007 “Tech Talk” BoF video. You can find it right here on Web3D.org!

 Announcing an Octaga Community Forum

Sep 17, 2007

We would like to inform you that Octaga has opened an Octaga specific forum,

(Or just go to the octaga web site and select “community” from the top menu)

We will try to answer all Octaga related questions on the forum.
As always questions can also be directed to: support@octaga.com for technical questions, and sales@octaga.com for commercial and licensing issues.

Also, Octaga has developed a free VRML1 to VRML97 converter. It comes with absolutely no guarantees and no warranty.
It it available for download at: http://www.octaga.com/freedownloads/Vrml10to20/VRML10To20.zip

If you encounter any problem with the converterer we are happy to receive any feedback at support@octaga.com

 New Version of River of Life Is Available

Sep 12, 2007

A new version of River of Life has been posted at this link . Please feel free to test this new version.
Models can be found here and here.

There are usually some problems with a fresh release (caps in titles, etc.). If you load the world and find these, please post them to Len Bullard’s blog at the link above. This world is encoded in VRML97. It will be converted to X3D once this version works.

Note that the world was built by hand using the BitManagement BSContact browser. It has not been tested on other VRML browsers lately. If you do, let Len Bullard know how that it goes. The worlds have been through Chisel and are error free to the best of his knowledge. There are still warnings and non-conformance messages given the tight restrictions of Chisel, but other wise it runs.

One favor: please don’t pilfer the sound files. Those are samples under fair use and this is a not-for-profit world. All of the artists are listed in the credits.