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<div class="w3dnl_headerSectionTitle">Web3D at
SIGGRAPH</div>
<div class="w3dnl_headerSectionDate">Fall 2011</div>
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<p>Over 500 people attended seven BOF and Tech Talk
meetings, with many more visiting the Web3D exhibition booth
on the show floor. News highlights for SIGGRAPH activities
included:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="#fall2011-ar">Augmented reality</a></li>
<li><a href="#fall2011-html5">HTML5/DOM
interoperability</a></li>
<li><a href="#fall2011-medical">Medical standards
progress</a></li>
<li><a href="#fall2011-commercial">Commercial
progress</a></li>
<li><a href="#fall2011-korea">Korea chapter
meeting</a></li>
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<p><img align="left"
src="http://web3d.org/files/newsletters/s2011/web3d-booth-2011.jpg"
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<p>Thank you for visiting the Web3D Consortium booth,
attending our Tech Talk, or one of our Birds of a Feather at
SIGGRAPH 2011. We showcased the broad impact of our X3D
Standard for 3D graphics over the web. This year has been
particularly exciting, our new technologies <span
class="w3dnl_highlight">x3dom, X3D/AR</span>, and <span
class="w3dnl_highlight">Declarative 3D</span> and other
initiatives has given X3D more recognition. If you visited
our booth, you saw Web3D and our partners; demonstrate the
latest breakthrough technologies based on the X3D/VRML
solutions showcasing cutting-edge 3D visualization
capabilities including, x3dom and Augmented Reality across a
broad range of engineering, medical and geospatial
applications.</p>
<p>Programmers, animators, artists, and 3D graphics experts
around the world are adopting X3D for its:</p>
<ul>
<li>Powerful optimized visualization of real time 3D
graphics on the Web including Augmented and Mixed
Reality.</li>
<li>Easy-to-create interactive 3D content</li>
<li>Robust interoperability and import/export
formats</li>
<li>Support of native 3D within an HTML5 page.</li>
</ul>
<div class="imageBlockRight"><img
src="http://web3d.org/files/newsletters/s2011/x3d-mobile.jpg"
alt="" /> <br />
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<img
src="http://web3d.org/files/newsletters/s2011/x3d-earth.jpg"
alt="" /></div>
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<div class="w3dnl_section-title"><a
name="fall2011-commercial">Commercial Progress</a></div>
<p><img align="right"
src="http://web3d.org/files/newsletters/s2011/x3dom.jpg"
alt="" class="imageRight" />Highlighted at the booth were <a
href="http://www.bitmanagement.com/">Bitmanagement</a>'s
Virtual worlds showing integrated X3D-Earth landscapes and
complete city models. Textured <span
class="w3dnl_highlight">3D models of complete cities</span>
constructed automatically and visualized with the high
performing C++ BS Contact Geo VRML/X3D running on Google
Android, Apple iOS and Mac, Windows, and Linux. <a
href="http://www.igd.fraunhofer.de/en/Institut/Abteilungen/Virtuelle-und-Erweiterte-Realit%C3%A4t">Fraunhofer</a>'s
Augmented Reality demonstration of virtual objects merged
into real scenes using X3D-based applications were shown
cross platforms including an iPhone.<img align="left"
src="http://web3d.org/files/newsletters/s2011/web3d-bof-2011.jpg"
style="margin-top: 1em;" alt="" class="imageLeft" /> Their
x3dom demonstrations proved that X3D can indeed run in a
native browser without plug-ins.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>x3dom was also presented at the the Web3D and the WebGL
BoF. Web3D Consortium member <a
href="http://www.igd.fraunhofer.de/en">Fraunhofer</a>'s
JavaScript-based X3D player, fully integrated with HTML with
no plug-ins currently supported in Chrome, Firefox and
Safari browser. For more information see <a
href="http://www.x3dom.org/">x3dom project and example
implementations</a>.</p>
<p> </p>
<div class="w3dnl_section-title"><a
name="fall2011-html5">HTML5/DOM Interoperability</a></div>
<p><img align="right"
src="http://web3d.org/files/newsletters/s2011/web3d-d3d-2011.jpg"
alt="" class="imageRight" /> Our <a
href="http://www.web3d.org/x3d/wiki/index.php/X3D_and_HTML5">X3D/HTML5</a>
and <a
href="http://www.web3d.org/x3d/wiki/index.php/X3D_and_HTML5">Declarative
3D</a> BoF discussed the efforts of the recently formed
World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) <a
href="http://www.w3.org/community/declarative3d/">Declarative
3D for the Web Architecture Community Group</a> chartered to
examine the requirements, options, and use cases for an
integration of interactive 3D graphics capabilities into the
W3C technology stack. This effort has strategic importance
for Web3D and indeed for all 3D graphics, since X3D is an
interchange format for a wide variety of models. We intend
to establish a solid foundation for X3D to properly support
3D graphics for the native Web page.</p>
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<p> </p>
<div class="w3dnl_section-title"><a
name="fall2011-ar">Augmented Reality</a></div>
<p><img align="left"
src="http://web3d.org/files/newsletters/s2011/augmented-reality-globe.jpg"
alt="" class="imageLeft" /> The X3D AR BoF updated the
community about the new <a
href="http://web3d.org/x3d/wiki/index.php/X3D_and_Augmented_Reality">Web3D
AR working group</a> and how X3D capabilities can be
extended to support augmented reality (AR) and mixed reality
(MR) applications. Current work in AR is focused on
harmonizing proven capabilities into best practices for AR
and 3D graphics, implementable by multiple X3D viewers and
usable by content authors.</p>
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<p> </p>
<div class="w3dnl_section-title"><a
name="fall2011-medical">Medical Standards Progress</a></div>
<p>The <a
href="http://www.web3d.org/x3d/workgroups/medical/">X3D
Medical</a> BoF discussed and demonstrated volume rendering
capabilities for viewing 3D scans and objects using X3D; we
also provided an update on our activities with the <a
href="http://medical.nema.org/">DICOM</a> standards
organization in standardizing the presentation 3D medical
images.</p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<div class="w3dnl_section-title"><a
name="fall2011-korea">Korea Chapter Meeting</a></div>
<p><img align="right"
src="http://web3d.org/files/newsletters/s2011/web3d-korea-chapter.jpg"
alt="" class="imageRight" />At the <a
href="http://www.web3d.kr/">Web3D Korea Chapter</a> BoF the
Korean group discussed their current initiatives on the X3D
specification: E-Learning, X3D mobile functions and X3D for
Augmented reality. Web3D recently started their China
Chapter, where several initatives to expand the X3D
specifications are being proposed.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Use of X3D systems has increased steadily throughout the
world, delivering durable applications in industry, science,
medicine, culture, entertainment, education and now
Augmented Reality. Our ever popular Web3D Tech Talk
showcased <img align="left"
src="http://web3d.org/files/newsletters/s2011/x3d-adoption.jpg"
alt="" class="imageLeft" /> cutting-edge INNOVATIVE cross
platform X3D and VRML content, speakers discussed their
product development and deployment going from concept to the
final product.</p>
<p><img align="right"
src="http://web3d.org/files/newsletters/s2011/x3d-black.jpg"
alt="" class="imageRight" /></p>
<p>X3D (<a
href="http://www.web3d.org/documents/What_is_X3DJuly2010.pdf">What
is X3D</a>) remains the most widely used standard for the
implementation of high integrity and high capability 3D
systems. For a list of recent projects using X3D see <a
href="http://www.web3d.org/casestudies">X3D Use Cases</a>
and <a
href="http://www.web3d.org/event/s2010/X3DAdoption.pdf">X3D
Adoption</a>. Experience the power of the only ISO
certified, royalty free open-standard 3D implementation for
the Web. Use X3D visualization and animation software and
services for several market sectors like, Geospatial,
Medical, BIM, and Virtual Worlds. Explore X3D Earth
integrated with cityscapes, X3D content playing on the
iPhones. X3D ensures interoperability, longevity and
ownership of your content.</p>
<p><img align="right"
src="http://web3d.org/files/newsletters/s2011/web3d-siggraph-2011-presentations.png"
alt="" class="imageRight" /> Due to the large interest in
X3D, there were several discussions, meetings and BoFs at
SIGGRAPH. <a
href="http://www.web3d.org/event/s2010/HTML5-X3D-Integration.pdf">Slide
sets on x3dom</a> and <a
href="http://web3d.org/realtime-3d/files/documents/S2011/amr_Extending-X3D-AR-MR-Apps_keil.pdf">Augmented
Reality</a> are available along with other <a
href="http://www.web3d.org/realtime-3d/presentations/siggraph-2011">SIGGRAPH
2011 slide sets</a>. There has never been a better time to
engage in the Web3D Consortium and it's standard X3D. We
look forward to your participation.</p>
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<div class="w3dnl_event"><a
href="http://new.web3d.org/events/ogc-tcpc-meetings">OGC
Plenary Meeting</a> – Boulder, CO - Sep 19-23,
2011</div>
<div class="w3dnl_event"><a
href="http://new.web3d.org/events/fourth-international-ar-standards-meeting">AR
Standards Meeting</a> – Basel, SW - Oct 23-25,
2011</div>
<div class="w3dnl_event"><a
href="http://new.web3d.org/events/tpac-2011-w3c-technical-plenary-advisory-committee-meetings">W3C
TPAC 2011</a> – Santa Clara, CA - Oct 31- Nov 3,
2011</div>
<div class="w3dnl_event">ISO-JTC – San Diego, CA - Nov
7-10, 2011</div>
<div class="w3dnl_event"><a
href="http://new.web3d.org/events/siggraph-asia-2011">SIGGRPAPH
Asia 2011</a> – Hong Kong, China - Dec 11-15,
2011</div>
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