VRML : Virtual Reality Modeling Language

• In 1994 : From 2D to 3D on the Net

• In 1997 : VRML 2.0   : ISO standard (ISO/IEC 14772-1:1997)

• Based on Open Inventor and on concept of Scene Graph

• Use VRML Browser
  The source of limitation ?

• Interaction and behaviour and ROUTE

• Include the Network, with the URLs

• File Format, with a External Authoring Interface (EAI) and Script Node

• Main quality and main imperfection : it is a text file !

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