Open Standards for Real-Time 3D Communication

The fourteenth annual International Web3D Symposium will showcase X3D, the only open, royalty-free and ISO-certified technology available today for interactive 3D graphics on the World Wide Web. With over a decade of innovation X3D continues to grow and provide unprecedented value for the capability, longevity, and ownership of 3D content. Come see these innovative X3D systems and learn how to protect your 3D content investment for a lifetime. Join the Web3D Consortium and become a part of this evolving standard.
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Berg, Germany, May 12 2009 – Bitmanagement, a leading technology provider of interactive Web 3D software since 2002 has announced today that the new release of their 3D viewer product BS Contact Web 3D 7.2 is ready for download at http://www.bitmanagement.com . The 3D internet software, which runs embedded in all major browsers implements both the ISO standard definitions X3D and VRML prepared by the Web3D consortium as well as the industry standard Collada delivered by the Khronos consortium. Unlike other attempts to proclaim proprietary technology such as 3D web standards recently the customers of Bitmanagement appreciate the long term lifespan of ISO ratified standard definitions for their applications that can run unchanged for decades. (Customer case studies: http://www.bitmanagement.de/demos/customer_apps.en.html)20090519_PR_BS_Contact_7_2.pdf
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The MITRE Corporation’s Center for Advanced Aviation System Development (CAASD) has joined the Web3D Consortium as a Directing Member to assist in developing and maturing the X3D specification.
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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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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.
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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.
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Shell has chosen Octaga Enterprise for delivery of interactive 3D viewing system for Ormen Lange processing plant at Aukra.
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