Open Standards for Real-Time 3D Communication

Mar 31, 2004

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.

Mar 31, 2004

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.

Jul 23, 2002

Call for Implementations in advance of International Standard submission; X3D SDK available from Web3D Consortium at SIGGRAPH 2002; Web3D Consortium establishes Java Rendering Working Group to define graphics API bindings for Java

Feb 26, 2002

Adoption by MPEG-4 group, cooperation with World Wide Web Consortium and Open Source implementation to propel commercial adoption of royalty-free standard.

Feb 22, 2002

The Web3D Consortium today announced the acceptance of its X3D Interactive Profile by the Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) as the basis for lightweight, interactive 3D graphics in the MPEG-4 multimedia standard.