Open Standards for Real-Time 3D Communication

The X3D Interactive Profile has been adopted by MPEG to bring state-of-the-art, X3D-based, interactive 3D graphics to the MPEG-4 multimedia standard. The X3D Interactive profile is now a part of the ISO/IEC 14496 specification that will formally become an International Standard in January 2005.
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Doug Twilleager, Senior Manager of Graphics & Media and Chief Architect of Game Technologies Group at Sun Microsystems, and Captain Chris Gunderson, Commanding Officer of the US Navy's Fleet Numerical Oceanographic & Meteorological Center (FNMOC) will be the keynote speakers for the Ninth Annual Web3D Symposium at the Monterey Marriott Hotel in Monterey, California on April 5-8 2004. The Symposium is organized as two days of detailed tutorials, followed by two days of keynote, papers and exhibits.
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