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I am sorry for the late response: somehow your reply below didn't enter my mailbox, and I found it later in the archives.</div>
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It is good to hear that the Immersive Web WG is already working on these issues. I am a novice on the subject of Html/X3D specifications. But having been involved in the POC on HoloLens I was surprised the current X3D doesn't include the features yet that we
take for granted in 2D. Of course this only becomes relevant when 3D devices will become comfortable enough to offer a competitive browsing experience with flat screens.</div>
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But it seems to me that when that moment comes, many entities will want to offer a 3D equivalent of their website,</div>
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Although maybe preferable, I am not sure whether an integrated DOM is necessary. I think X3D would already benefit greatly by just having Html islands within X3D, maybe as an extension of the material tag.</div>
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We are not involved in hardware development, only software. Do you think it would in anyway helpful to join a discussion of the W3C Immersive Web WG? Eventually the technology for the 3D web is probably something for the major browsers to agree upon.</div>
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<span style="display: inline !important; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Consolas; font-size: 13.33px">X3D (in strict specification sense) cannot be integrated with HTML5. There are fundamental incompatibilities that prevent that from happening
(see node and attribution case, Script node name, name scoping, and event handling for major examples). I started developing XSeen (</span><a style="color: rgb(0, 102, 204); font-family: Consolas; font-size: 13.33px; text-decoration: underline" href="https://xseen.org/">https://XSeen.org/</a><span style="display: inline !important; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Consolas; font-size: 13.33px">)
to address to issues. XSeen is fully integrated with HTML5 allowing mixed DOM and 3D content throughout the page. The W3C Immersive Web WG is addressing many of the issues you have raised in this and other emails. Some of these issues end up being much more
involved than what appears on the surface, especially when involving device fingerprinting, security considerations, or user permissions. In particular your question about incorporating 2D web pages into 3D scene very quickly starts down the part of security
considerations. For example, does the 2D content have access to the 3D space? Does the 3D context have access to the 2D pages? How do you ensure that a click on a 2D page element (e.g., checkbox) really gets handled by the 2D page and is not completely intercepted
by something in the 3D space? If you are developing some hardware with associated software that will work in the XR space, it might be very good to get involved with them. I can provide contact information if you need it. </span></div>
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<b>Verzonden:</b> dinsdag 11 december 2018 11:52<br>
<b>Aan:</b> vmarchetti@kshell.com<br>
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<b>Onderwerp:</b> Re: [x3d-public] Hyperlink and form support</font>
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If one can only have planes (or maybe even curved surfaces) having 2d browser content in a 3D SceneGraph a large part of the described issue would be resolved.</div>
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I thing the 2D and 3D browsing environment should be reciprocal to be most effective. But I couldn't find this described yet, and I can imagine this is viewed and tackled another way.</div>
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The Anchor is indeed what I somehow failed to find earlier in the specification.</div>
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The situation we envision is when XR glasses will be commonly used to access 3D websites that have similar possibilities for businesses as the current 2D sites. This means that 3D website builders should be able surround a (part of a) text, an image or a 3D
object with an anchor. Also one needs normal text fields, radio- and checkboxes etc. for users to be able to fill-in their choices and post back to the server.</div>
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<div>X3D does supports responding to mouse clicks on an elements of a 3D scene graph through the TouchSensor node (<a href="http://www.web3d.org/documents/specifications/19775-1/V3.3/Part01/components/pointingsensor.html#TouchSensor">http://www.web3d.org/documents/specifications/19775-1/V3.3/Part01/components/pointingsensor.html#TouchSensor</a>)
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<div>to a shape in the Anchor node: <a href="http://www.web3d.org/documents/specifications/19775-1/V3.3/Part01/components/networking.html#Anchor">http://www.web3d.org/documents/specifications/19775-1/V3.3/Part01/components/networking.html#Anchor</a></div>
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<div>There is a basic example of the Anchor node on the X_ITE website: <a href="http://create3000.de/users-guide/components/networking/anchor/#example">http://create3000.de/users-guide/components/networking/anchor/#example</a></div>
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<div>I'm not sure what form support would mean in the context of a 3D Scenegraph, but there is a specification for capturing and responding to keyboard presses in the StringSensor node: <a href="http://www.web3d.org/documents/specifications/19775-1/V3.3/Part01/components/keyboard.html#StringSensor">http://www.web3d.org/documents/specifications/19775-1/V3.3/Part01/components/keyboard.html#StringSensor</a></div>
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<div>Can you say more about how you would like to extend the familiar interface patterns of hyperlinks and input forms into the 3D and VR worlds?</div>
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<div>On Dec 9, 2018, at 3:36 PM, Albert Jan Wonnink <<a href="mailto:awonnink@hotmail.com">awonnink@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:</div>
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<span>About a year ago we started a proof of concept of a browser suitable for HoloLens and supporting business processes. We choose X3D as basic format, but because of lack of knowledge of the full specification, and having the focus on the technology, we
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<span>The most important features for which we couldn't find the X3D implementation where hyperlinks- and form support.</span></div>
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