Open Standards for Real-Time 3D Communication

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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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