Join the Web3D Consortium

The Web3D Consortium is a non-profit group open to industry, academic, government and individual members, committed to the creation and deployment of open, royalty-free ISO standards that enable interactive, real-time 3D on the Web. Our standard X3D is Web ready and supports wide range of applications. X3D runs on all platforms including laptops, tablets, phones, immersive headsets, and large-scale CAVES.  

Founded in 1997, we are an International, non-profit, member-funded, industry standards development organization. We develop and maintain open, royalty-free ISO standards for web-based 3D graphics. Our standard X3D (Extensible 3D) originated from VRML and is available in XML, Compressed Binary, and classic VRML formats. X3D is a scene-graph description language that integrates network-enabled 3D graphics and multimedia.  X3D design supports 3D models as Web pages and includes similarities to HTML pages.

New Member Package. Join our community events: Annual Web3D Conference and VR HackathonsWeb3D membership provides real benefits for 3D graphics communication, networking, leadership, marketing, and specification development. Formal Web3D Consortium By-Laws govern our organization.  Web3D members agree to follow the Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Policy for all technical contributions.  This approach protects a massive set of technology capabilities, keeping X3D and related standards royalty free for any use.

    Review Membership Agreements: See attached documents [1]-[4] at the bottom of the page.

    Apply for Membership

    If you or your organization are a Web3D Consortium Member, please sign up for a username and password. You will need the coupon code from your employer to avoid paying a membership fee. All organizations receive a coupon code that provides free membership to its employees.

    Overview of Membership Levels, Dues and Benefits

      Directing Organization Professional/Student Community
    Dues
    Large $25,000 $15,000 N/A N/A
    Standard $9,500 $5,500 N/A N/A
    Small $4,000 $2,500 N/A N/A
    Professional N/A N/A $250 <free>
    Student N/A N/A $100 <free>
    Application Procedure
    Signed Member Agreement Yes Yes Yes - electronically Yes - electronically
    Membership Approval Needed By Board No No No
    Participation Benefits
    Seat on Board Yes - if desired By election By election No
    Working Group Participation Yes Yes Yes No
    Vote in Working Groups One vote One vote No No
    Vote on Bylaws change Yes Yes No No
    Waiver of Adopters Fees Yes Yes No No
    Contribute to Wiki/Forum Yes Yes Yes Yes

     See the Member Category Comparison page for a detailed comparison of the capability differences.

    Definitions of Large, Standard and Small Organizations

    Annual Dues payable for each level of membership vary according to the size of the member organization:

    • "Large" organizations are
      • companies with $50M annual revenue or more
      • academic, military, or government organizations with 1,000 or more paid staff or faculty members;
    • "Standard" membership is available to any
      • company with annual revenue from $5M to $50M
      • academic, military, or government organizations with 100 to 999 paid staff or faculty members;
    • "Small" membership is available to any
      • company with annual revenue less than $5M
      • academic, military, or government organizations with less than 100 paid staff or faculty members
    • Standard Professional membership dues are reduced for accredited students.

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    • All Consortium members are empowered to participate in Consortium Working Groups and contribute to Consortium specifications before public deployment. 
    • The Consortium works closely with the International Standards Organization (ISO), Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Health Level 7 (HL7), Metaverse Standards Forum, and other standardization bodies to maximize both interoperability and market opportunities for its membership.
    • Members are also able to network with leading world-wide experts in Web3D technology to accelerate the delivery of their cutting-edge 3D platforms and applications. Web3D Consortium Recent Report

    If you are planning to use open source standards for your commercial products to deliver the best, time-tested, stable 3D content to your customers. Now is the time to join the Web3D Consortium and cast your vote in this last stage to publishing ISO X3D 4.0 spec with several new features.  Show the industry you are the leader who is helping make interoperable 3D a reality.

     

    Issues

    For more information about membership please send an email to: member_services@web3d.org.