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Over 300 people attended our Birds of the Feather (BoF) sessions with many more visiting the Web3D exhibition booth on the show floor. There has never been a better time to <a href="http://www.web3d.org/join">engage with the Web3D Consortium</a> and to build out new dimensions on the World Wide Web!<o:p></o:p></p><p style='line-height:115%'><img border=0 width=314 height=236 id="Picture_x0020_7" src="cid:image033.jpg@01D0FBA3.8AFF42D0"><img border=0 width=318 height=238 id="Picture_x0020_6" src="cid:image034.jpg@01D0FBA3.8AFF42D0"><o:p></o:p></p><p style='line-height:115%'><b><a href="http://www.web3d.org/event/x3d-xroads-3d-web-2015">Birds of the Feather (BOF) presentations</a></b><o:p></o:p></p><p style='line-height:115%'>News highlights for SIGGRAPH 2015 activities include:<o:p></o:p></p><ol start=1 type=1><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:115%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><a href="#CommercialProgress">Commercial Progress</a><o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:115%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><a href="#HTML5DOMInteroperability">X3D V4.0 with HTML5/DOM</a><o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:115%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><a href="#CurturalHeritageAugmentedReality">Cultural Heritage and Augmented Reality</a><o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:115%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><a href="#VolumeVisualization">Medical Volume Visualization</a><o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:115%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><a href="#_CAD_and_3D">CAD and 3D Printing</a><o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:115%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><a href="#_Humanoid_Animation_(H-Anim)">Humanoid Animation (H-Anim)</a><o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:115%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><a name=HumanoidAnimation></a><a href="#_Geo_web">Geo Web</a> <o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:115%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><a name=Web3DConference></a><a href="#_Web3D_2015_Conference">Web3D 2015 Conference</a><o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:115%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><a href="#_Upcoming_Events">Upcoming Events</a><span class=MsoHyperlink><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'><o:p></o:p></span></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:115%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><a href="#_Upcoming_Events"><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'><u><span style='color:blue'>Big Picture Getting Bigger: X3D Systems</span></u></span> </a><o:p></o:p></li></ol><p style='line-height:115%'>In each of these areas, we showcased the broad impact of the X3D Standard for interactive 3D graphics over the web. This year has been particularly exciting with new capabilities and applications for <strong>X3DOM</strong>, <strong>Mixed Augmented Reality</strong>, and <strong>Volume Visualization</strong>. In addition, X3D adoption in international initiatives like <strong>3D Printing and Cultural Heritage</strong> has given the extensible ISO standard even greater recognition and support. If you visited our booth, you saw Web3D Consortium members demonstrate the latest breakthrough techniques and applications, showcasing cutting-edge 3D visualization across a broad range of Engineering, Medical, 3D Printing, Cultural Heritage and Geospatial.<o:p></o:p></p><p style='line-height:115%'>Each year we find more and more programmers, animators, artists, and 3D graphics experts around the world adopting X3D for multiple reasons, including:<o:p></o:p></p><ul type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:115%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Powerful, optimized visualization for real time 3D graphics on the Web.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:115%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Easy-to-create interactive 3D content<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:115%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Robust interoperability and import/export formats<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:115%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Support of native 3D within an HTML5 page<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><h2 style='line-height:115%'><a name=CommercialProgress><u><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#000066'>Commercial Progress</span></u></a><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%'><o:p></o:p></span></h2><p style='line-height:115%'>Highlighted in the booth were Fraunhofer's newest techniques for large model visualization, Mixed Augmented Reality and Cultural Heritage, shown across several platforms including laptops and tablets. In addition, we showcased Virginia Tech’s Medical Volume Visualization and real 3D prints from the NIH’s <a href="http://3dprint.nih.gov">3D Print Exchange</a>.<o:p></o:p></p><p style='line-height:115%'>X3D's V4 prototype, X3DOM, demonstrations showed how X3D content can be run natively in an HTML5 browser without plug-ins. The open source WebGL/ JavaScript-based X3D player (X3DOM) fully integrates with HTML DOM events. WebGL is currently supported in Chrome, Firefox and Safari browsers. For more information see <a href="http://x3dom.org">X3DOM project</a> and <a href="http://examples.x3dom.org">examples</a>.<o:p></o:p></p><p style='line-height:115%'><b> </b><a href="http://www.web3d.org/event/x3d-xroads-3d-web-2015"><b>Our Birds of the Feather (BOF) presentations are available here</b></a><b><o:p></o:p></b></p><h2 style='line-height:115%'><a name=HTML5DOMInteroperability><u><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#000066'>X3D Futures - V4.0 with HTML5/DOM</span></u></a><u><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#000066'> </span></u><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%'><o:p></o:p></span></h2><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:115%;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'>Our X3D Futures BOF discussions included X3D content in HTML5 pages, rendered using WebGL. X3DOM is the prototype for next-generation Web as <a href="http://www.web3d.org/x3d-version-4">X3D Version 4</a> standard. 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. 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