X3D News Archive February 2008
Feb 16, 2008
Yumetech is pleased to announce the next session of their fast-track workshop for developers and project managers wanting to familiarize themselves with next-generation 3D web graphics applications. X3D, the follow-on graphics language to VRML, is gaining ground in just about every area of application development. Yumetech’s staff, composed of authors of the X3D specification, will train students over a period of three days to build interactive worlds, simulations, and other 3D-instensive applications. The class will be held in their home city of Seattle, from March 11-13, 2008. Interested students should contact either Alan Hudson or Wayne Warren
Featured in this class will be:
New Open Source tools for Collada
X3D Conversion X3DEarth Mashups showing how to present data over top X3D Earth Globes
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Feb 02, 2008
Media Grid recently announced its plans to roll out a cross-platform, immersive world for education for academics, students, and trainers everywhere because 3D environments need to provide a 3D educational perspective. After experimenting with VRML, the Unreal Engine, and other tools since 2001, the organization realized that it needed to begin looking beyond simply one platform. It formed the Immersive Education Initiative and looked for options. They looked at all the platforms that were available and arrived at the first three systems. Second Life, which is open source on the viewer; Sun Microsystems’ Wonderland; and Croquet, an open-source educational environment created by Duke University. The thrust of the initiative was to get a product out as quickly as possible that is adaptable for ongoing upgrades. That involves establishing not only a user interface that’s consistent across the three platforms, but a way to recognize assets for teaching tools, host them, and make them available for use in any environment. The Education Grid will be populated by file formats that can be read by existing forms and will have educational grid assets for Second Life and X3D for Wonderland and for Croquet. Read more
Feb 02, 2008
The National Postgraduate School (NPS) team has produced another update to X3D-Edit, a new authoring tool for simple error-free editing, authoring and validation of X3D scenes. The latest weekly build includes collaboration chat with file sharing, the complete set of X3D specifications, a new X3D Example Archives download panel, and an updated Xj3D viewer. Free download is available at X3D-Edit
In addition to being available as a cross-platform standalone application, X3D-Edit is now listed in the Netbeans Plugin Portal.
Public or private evaluation comments are welcome.
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