Open Standards for Real-Time 3D Communication

Aug 11, 2008

Web3D Consortium's X3D Earth team is now creating and deploying large model archives for developmental use. X3D mappings of world terrain, cartography and imagery is now available for use in X3D scenes, making it easy to geospatially reference and share X3D models while using royalty-free standards, the Web architecture, XML languages and open protocols. X3D Earth example worlds and video demonstrations are online at x3d-earth.nps.edu. Current efforts include invitations to various governments and agencies to both provide and expose geospatial terrain, bathymetry and imagery as sharable digital assets for the X3D Earth project.

Aug 07, 2008

Automatically constructed 3D cities visualized online / Quality leap hand in hand with substantial cost reduction/ Customer specific GUI and community specifics / Application is based on 3D visualisation software from Bitmanagement.

Aug 07, 2008

Web3D Consortium's CAD Working Group plans to better align the infrastructure that X3D already has for CAD visualization and bridge the gap between CAD systems and Web deployment of CAD applications. The combination of X3D and COLLADA form a powerful pipeline for reusing CAD data. Web3D Consortium's CAD Working Group and Khronos COLLADA Working Group together will improve this content pipeline and ensure that there is no duplication of efforts and moving between these systems will be effortless.

Aug 05, 2008

Web3D Consortium is announcing its annual SIGGRAPH participation (August 11-15) in Los Angeles, California, USA. This year the consortium celebrates it's 10th anniversary with a bigger presence in the 3D graphics industry. Visit them at SIGGRAPH 2008 (booth 139) and see the progress of this evolving standard and X3D/VRML innovations and find out how you can use X3D for your real-time 3D graphics needs! A week full of events showcasing X3D technology.

Mar 21, 2008

Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c86190) has announced the addition of 2007 3D Technology and Markets: A Study of All Aspects of Electronic 3D Systems, Applications and Markets to their offering.

Nov 19, 2007

The Octaga Player Adobe Reader plug-in enables users to visualize and interact with the 3D content embedded within PDF documents. The text in the PDF document can be linked directly to view points on the 3D module, so with one click a user can travel to different parts of the 3D object in the document. With this release, Octaga makes it feasible to share interactive training manuals, products presentations and many other real time 3D features, directly from within Adobe Reader.

Oct 12, 2007

Shell has chosen Octaga Enterprise for delivery of interactive 3D viewing system for Ormen Lange processing plant at Aukra.

Aug 03, 2007

The Octaga summer 2007 newsletter chock full of exciting news with new Case Studies, noteworthy news mentions, and tons of new product news!

Aug 01, 2007

San Francisco, California August 1, 2007 Planet 9 Studios, the leading supplier of 3D city data and software, has released for licensing a set of 50 digital city models optimized for mobile applications including cell phones, car navigation systems and GPS devices.

Jul 31, 2007

Octaga is first to offer a commercial cross-platform X3D viewer for Mac OS X