<div><div dir="auto">One more thing I noticed is that npx isn’t mentioned.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">So something like:</div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">npx x3test -u …</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Should download and run x3test and run.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">If you want the latest copy, try:</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">npx x3test@latest -u …</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">or npx x3test@version …</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">This isn’t tested by me, but I commonly use npx with sunrize to launch multiple scenes into sunrize (great feature, holger).   This saves a lot of time going through a lot of test scene.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">If we could get an Electron viewer (is there one?) for X3DOM, awesome!</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">John</div><div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Mar 25, 2026 at 1:55 PM Polys, Nicholas via x3d-public <<a href="mailto:x3d-public@web3d.org" target="_blank">x3d-public@web3d.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">




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I just wanted to share that I have posted the X3DOM</div>
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VideoSphere pattern and released on github (MIT license):</div>
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Thanks to UND and the Web3D Tools 2025 Competition for the inspiration!</div>
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I will continue to create and share repos with our work! 🙂</div>
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X3DTest  <a id="m_8447804391291252069m_3784264788844367678OWAedd3ff25-d053-48a7-62e9-da2a97e32ccb" href="https://github.com/VT-Visionarium/X3Test" target="_blank">
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Nikhil Narra, Anuj Marisetty, Nicholas Polys, and Ben Sandbrook. 2025. X3Test: A Headless Browser-Based Framework for Automated Performance Benchmarking of X3D/X3DOM Scenes. In Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on 3D Web Technology (Web3D '25).
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Nikhil Narra, Anuj Marisetty, Nicholas Polys, and Ben Sandbrook. 2025. A Generalized Web3D API for Metaverse Bookmarks. In Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on 3D Web Technology (Web3D '25). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY,
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<span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Nicholas F. Polys, Ph.D.<br>
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Virginia Tech Research Computing<br>
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