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Vrml

Specifications / Important Sites

VRML 1.0C Specification, Jan '96
compressed tar(.gz,100kB)
VRML 2.0 Final Specification
Overview, Aug '96
compressed tar(.gz,1.6MB)
VRML97 Specification, ISO/IEC 14772-1:1997
compressed tar(.gz,470kB)
External Authoring Interface Reference, Jan '97
compressed tar(.gz,1.6MB)
VRMLScript Reference
X3D Documents (XML compliant "Extensible 3D", launched by Web3D Consortium)
Web3D Consortium alias VRML Consortium, VRML Architecture Group
The VRML Repository

Browser

CosmoPlayer
Javascript Interface For Cosmoplayer, DevEdge Online - TechNotes
Cortona VRML Client
CosmoPlayer
Alternate Cosmo Player Download Site
WorldView 2.0, Intervista
Community Place
Platinum WIRL supports HMDs
CASUS Presenter, Java VRML Browser for SGI, Sun</LI>
Gregory Seidman's VRML97 Browser Datasheet
FreeWRL, open-source, Gnu-licensed VRML browser
VRwave
VRML97 Parser (Java)
Web3D / VRML Browser Detector

Papers and Info

VRML/Java/Javascript FAQ at Aereal Inc.
VRMLSite magazine
Lots of VRML stuff by Alligator Descartes
GMD: VRML Papers
VRML Humanoid Animation Working Group
The VRML External Authoring Interface , Anthony Steed, University College London
VRML FAQ
VRML 2.0 EAI FAQ
Putting 3D on the Desktop: VRML97 and Java3D, a comparison by Anthony Steed
VRML 'xx, Conference Proceedings, ACM Digital Library (3-10$ per article :-()

Useful Examples, Object Libraries, Worlds

Michael Paulitsch's VRML Examples
Sensing camera position
NIST Scientific Visualization and VRML
VRML Widgets
Models and Textures from SGI
Mesh Mart, 3D Model Library
3d model of the universe - GEO (doesn't conforme with VRML 1.0)
VRML Mall
Gallery at vrml.sgi.com
VRML Galleries & Worlds, a large collection of VRML Worlds
David Frerichs VRML Universe
Models at reality.sgi.com
3D Visible Human
The NIST VRML Test Suite
Open Virtual Reality Testbed
VRML External Authoring Interface Examples
VRML Iso-Surface Extension, by Jean-Jacques Pittet
Space Art in VRML 2.0
Model of a W24 3-D Satellite
VRML Toys
mjbWorld, a VRML editor written in Java3D by Martin Baker
Animated Characters by Kazuyuki Nakajima
Animation of Characters with Articluated Joints, Frontiernet
mjb, free vrml modeler written in java3d
3D Cafe VRML Models
Endoframe- Ellipsis, C++ library for parsing VRML97

Multi-User VRML

Living Worlds, Making VRML 2.0 Applications Interpersonal and Interoperable
Open Community standard proposal for multi-user worlds
Universal Avatars
Multi-User VRML Environments
DIS-Java-VRML Working Group, distributed VR
JavaMOO

Web-Based Simulation

Web-Based Simulation Support
Web-Based Simulation
rube toolkit Paul Fishwick
OMG Object Management Group Distributed Simulation Special Interest Group
Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization, SISO
Web-Based Surgical Simulators using VRML and Java
Robot Simulators on the Net

Companies, Organizations

SGI Cosmo
Cosmosoftware
The VRML Consortium</LI>
EAI Working Group
Chaco Communications, Inc.
Sun and VRML
EVA - The European VRML Association
Blaxxun

People

Gavin Bell
Chris Marrin (VRML 2.0 Interfaces !)
David Frerich's site
Bob Crispen's VRML site

Meta-Links

The VRML Repository
VRML at SIGGRAPH '96
Steinbuch's VRML Fokus
VRML Course References
The Mining Co. Guide to VRML, by Sandy Ressler, Brutzman, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey
Paul Fishwick's VRMl Links
VRML 4 Linux

Further Links

Converters and Tools at SGI
VRML Art
OpenWorlds, VRML 2.0 C++ developement library
JVerge - A Free VRML 2.0 Node Java Class Library
Wolfgang Schloegl's Virtual Manufacturing
Converter to AND FROM (!) VRML2.0
German VRML Users Group
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