Web3D Consortium

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Web3D Consortium
Alan Hudson,Vice President, Web3D Consortium
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The Web3D Consortium

• A non-profit trade-association by the members,
  for the members
• A neutral forum for industry cooperation
• Strong infrastructure and experience in driving
  standards
• An accredited national standards body
• Royalty Free Standards

Create OpenWeb3D StandardsUsing open proposals
or de facto standards as a base
Industry Consensus Action
Promoting Web3D at Other Standards Bodies
Web3D Industry Representation Promotion
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The Need for Cooperation

• No industry survives and grows without
  appropriate cooperation
• We need to build 3D into the fabric of IT
• Ubiquitous, seamless viewing of 3D content
  anytime, anywhere
• Web, Desktop, Mobile, Caves
• Will take cooperation and standards
• Appropriate standards can be a powerful binding
  force
• Can be instrumental in pulling an industry
  forward to new opportunities

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Building a Web3D Market
Ubiquitous Web3D Markets for tools, contentand
delivery systems
Babel Danger Dizzying array of non-interoperable
formats and solutionsConfused media and confused
end-users
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X3D Third Generation Web3D

• Extensible profiles are adaptable in size and
  functionality
• Tightly integrated with XML - .wrl and .xml
  encodings

Immersive
Interactive
Interchange
Extension Framework
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X3D Significant Momentum

• X3D Specification has won ISO/IEC approval
• Final balloting before ISO standard
• Commercial X3D browsers and tools shipping
• Yumetech, MediaMachines, Virtock Technologies,
  V-Com3D
• X3D Binary and X3D Shaders Specs by Siggraph 2004
• XMSF Working Group formed leveraging X3D
  technology
• Extensible Modeling Simulation Framework

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Not Just X3D
FocusedClear commercial motivation and payback
Web3D Application Space
Can be used by any application X3D a necessary
element for ubiquitous Web3D
GeoVRML
DIS
H-Anim
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CAD Working Group

• Unlocking terabytes of original 3D data JPEG
  for 3D

Design data today is trapped needing expensive
CAD software to read and use
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Medical Working Group Med3D

• New vertical Consortium initiative
• Spearheaded by NIST, Duke University, Penn State,
  Verefi Inc.
• Mission Statement
• To enable technical cooperation between vendor
  companies (and academia) to help resolve the
  issues of sharing and viewing of 3D medical data
  in a common file format and viewing engine.
• Med3D is currently in the planning and
  organization phase.
• Seeking to establish a vibrant community of
  researchers, developers, and users from business,
  government and academics.