News & Features

Calling All X3D/VRML/X3DOM Content and Application Creators!
2012 Jun 23
Be a Presenter at our SIGGRAPH 2012 Web3D Tech Talk "X3D: Delivering New Dimensions on the Web".

The Web3D Consortium is sponsoring a Tech Talk at SIGGRAPH 2012 in Los Angeles on Wednesday, 8 August 2012 from 12:45 to 1:45PM.

Submission Deadline is Friday, 20 July 2012 at 5PM PDT (GMT-0700)

2012 Declarative 3D Workshop Report
2012 Jun 5
W3C's Declarative 3D Initiative using HTML's DOM discussed for creating, modifying, and sharing interactive, animated 3D graphics with HTML documents.

The 1st International Workshop on Declarative 3D for the Web Architecture (Dec3D2012) was held at the WWW2012 conference in Lyon, France on April 17, 2012.

Web3D 2012 Registration Now Open
2012 May 14
Online Registration for Web3D2012 and SIGGRAPH is Available

You can now register online for Web3D 2012 at Los Angeles, 4-5 August 2012. The Web3D 2012 is the 17th annual conference International Conference on 3D Web Technology.

X3D Validator Available for X3D Scenes
2012 May 14
Quality Assurance (QA) Tool for X3D Scenes is Available Online from Naval Postgraduate School (NPS)

X3D authors now have an excellent new tool for checking their scenes.

Best Paper Award at IEEE VR 2012
2012 Apr 2
A Web3D Member company won the Best Paper Award at the IEEE Virtual Reality Conference 2012 in Orange County, CA

Virginia Tech - Latest Directing Member
2012 Mar 19
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University advances it’s Web3D Consortium Membership to Directing Member

The Web3D Consortium is pleased to announce that Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech), has advanced its Web3D Consortium membership level to Directing Member.

Call for Papers: Declarative 3D
2012 Jan 12
The first International Workshop on Declarative 3D for the Web Architecture in conjunction with WWW2012, 21st International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2012) in Lyon, France on 17 April 2012.

You are invited to submit your papers to the workshop. The workshop aims to encourage researchers and practitioners from both the Web and 3D graphics communities to meet and talk about an integration of interactive 3D graphics capabilities into the Web technology stack in a declarative way.

Call for Papers: Web3D2012
2012 Jan 12
The 17th ACM International Web3D Conference will address a wide range of research topics related to Web-based 3D Graphics. The Conference will be held in Los Angeles in conjunction with SIGGRAPH 2012 on August 4-5, 2012.

The annual ACM Web3D Conference is a major event that gathers researchers, developers, entrepreneurs, experimenters, artists, and content creators in a dynamic environment.

BS Contact 8.0 Released
2011 Dec 21
Bitmanagement has released a new BS Contact version 8.000 as announced during summer. Thank you for your feedback as beta testers.

Speed and memory improvements such as X3D binary geometry compression, script sharing, geometry instancing, a new BS SDK update and many more features result in the best BS Contact ever.

Web3D Attended AR Standards Meeting
2011 Nov 7
The Web3D Consortium attended the fourth international AR Standards Meeting in Basel, Switzerland on October 24-25

The fourth international AR standards Meeting (http://www.perey.com/ARStandards/fourth-international-ar-standards-meeting/) was held in Basel, Switzerland on Oct 24-25.

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