History (cont...)
VR on the Net
Virtual Reality Modelling Language
- First International Conference on the World Wide Web (May, 1994), Mark Pesce and Tony Parisi present "Labyrinth", a tool for visualising the Web
- A consistent cyberspace defined using VRML is proposed to improve navigation of the Web, but discussion and activity that followed resulted in a specification for a common language for defining 3D scenes rather than an interface to the Web
- VRML 1.0 (May 1995), a language for defining static virtual worlds with Web anchors, based on Silicon Graphics' OpenInventor file format
- VRML 2.0 (August 1996) is a much more powerful language for defining dynamic virtual worlds, with animation, user interaction and program scripts
- VRML 97 (April 1997), ISO/IEC DIS 14772, is a revision of VRML 2.0
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