Web3D members will be participating in this event; discussing and collecting use cases and requirements for Architecture, Engineering, Construction (AEC) and building information management/modeling (BIM/M).
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2014 Mar 14
AEC Hackathon V1.1 (March 14-16) is supported by Web3D to develop disruptive ideas for the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction industry.
2013 Dec 23
Bitmanagement introduces "BS Content Studio". The new tool for the interactive 3D web is ready for download. The authoring tool allows the production of 3D content in browser and apps faster and without special knowledge of real-time 3D. The new graphical interface exports platform and browser independent to Web3D standards X3D, X3D binary, VRML and X3DOM using WebGL without plug-ins.
The German 3D software developer Bitmanagement Software GmbH who are in the board of directors of the Web3D Consortium in Mountain View, California, USA has released the new authoring tool "BS Content Studio", which enables a wide audience to create interactive and Internet ready 3D content.
2013 Dec 2
Web3D Consortium elevates extension efforts for X3D in HTML5. It will be based on the X3DOM prototype with backwards compatibility with existing X3D V3.x content.
The Web3D Consortium members have reached a milestone in efforts to continue extending the Extensible 3D (X3D) International Standard. Working group efforts to define and develop X3D version 4 have made excellent progress, continuing the evolution of open, royalty free ISO standards for 3D graph
2013 Nov 18
Virginia Tech is highlighting their visual-analytic X3D solutions at SuperComputing 2013 Conference
Virginia Tech will be exhibiting and presenting at the Supercomputing 2013 Conference in Denver, Colorado during the week of 18 November 2013.
2013 Nov 14
Web3D Presents X3D at AEC Hackathon at Facebook
Don Brutzman from the Web3D Consortium attended the AEC Hackathon from 8-10 November on the campus of Facebook. He gave a quick survey of capabilities and opportunities for this community when content is exported to X3D.
2013 Nov 5
The Web3D Consortium announces the community and public review of the Abstract SAI Draft International Standard ballot Comment Document.
The Web3D Consortium is offering the community an opportunity to review the ISO/IEC 19775-2 (Abstract SAI) Draft International Standard (DIS) ballot Comment Document.
2013 Nov 1
model/x3d+xml approved as registered MIME type.
The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) has approved Web3D Consortium's requests to register new MIME media types for X3D media in the XML encoding.
The primary MIME media type is model/x3d+xml. This identifier shall be used when sending XML-encoded X3D content using MIME.
2013 Aug 16
Call for Contributions providing "Hello World" scenes for many nations!
Many people know about the X3D scene HelloWorld.x3d which shows the basic structure and syntax of the language.
2013 Jul 17
Web3D member, Bitmanagement Software launches BS Content Studio (beta) at Siggraph 2013 in Anaheim, USA.
New authoring tool allows 3D developers for easy and fast creation of 3D scenes and applications / New graphical interface export to X3Dom with WebGL working without the need for using plug-in’s and is supported by BS content studio / 3D plug-in’s still to be applied in MS Internet Explorer on Wi
2013 Jul 17
Amazing innovative X3D solutions for HTML5 and the 3D Web will be presented at SIGGRAPH 2013 in BoFs, Tech Talk, and the Exhibition.
SIGGRAPH 2013 in Anaheim, California July 21-25 is the largest annual conference for computer graphics.
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