Introducing X3D

OverviewLeonard Daly

daly@realism.com

http://realism.com/Web3d/x3d/s2002

Course Schedule

• Overview

• XML Syntax & Profiles

• Authoring Tools

• Break

• SDK

• Basic Authoring

• Lunch

• Building Worlds

Speakers

• Leonard Daly, CTO Daly Realism, Inc.

• Joe Williams, Founder of HyperMultiMedia.com

• Nick Polys, CTO VirtuWorlds, Inc.

• Don Brutzman, NPS

• http://realism.com/Web3D/x3d/s2002

Outline

• What is X3D

• Uses

• Features

• Profiles

• Current Status

• Whoís Who

• Resources

What is X3D

• X3D - eXtensible 3D

• ISO Open Standard for Defining
  • 3D Content
    • Interactive Web
    • Broadcast
  • Integrated with Multimedia
    • MPEG
    • SVG
    • MathML
    • CML

Uses - Hardware

Variety of Hardware Devices

Image courtesy: www.5DT.com

Courtesy of and Copyright by 3Dconnexion Inc

Image courtesy: www.5DT.com

Electronic Visualization LaboratoryUniversity of Illinois at Chicago

StereoGraphics Corp

Dave Pape

Uses - Interchange

Universal Interchange Format for Integrated 3D Graphics & Multimedia

3D Studio

Max

Maya

Spazz3D

X3D

Browsers

Uses - Applications

Engineering / Scientific Visualization

MBARI Dive, Monterey Canyon CREDIT: Mike McCann MBARI © 2000.

DNA: Dr. Paul May, School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, UK

Uses - Applications

Multimedia Presentations

Uses - Applications

Entertainment & Educational

Uses - Applications

Web Pages

WTC Monument Design

Shake A Leg

Uses - Applications

Beyond Manzanar:Poems of exile and imprisonment

Web Pages

copyright 2000 Tamiko Thiel and Zara Houshmand

Uses - Applications

Shared Virtual Worlds

Features

• Graphics
  • High Quality
  • Real Time
  • Interactive
  • Multi-Media

• Evolutionary Successor to VRML97

Features (Cont.)

• Adds:
  • New features
  • additional data encoding
  • stricter conformance
  • componentized architecture

• XML Based

• Extensible with Other Graphics

Profiles

Full0x

Base

VRML97

Extensible

Interactive

Inter-

change

Nurbs

Text

Extrusion

Script

PROTO

Switch

sensors

SpotLight

KeySensor

Current Status

• Specification Completed

• Conformance Suite Done

• Sample Content Development In Progress

• X3D Browsers In Development

• Interactive Profile Part of MPEG-4

• Universal Media Converted

Whoís Who

Media Machines

• blaxxun Interactive

• Media Machines

• Nexternet

• NIST

• Open Worlds

• Parallel Graphics

• Yumetech

• NPS

Whoís Who

• Claude (Len) Bullard

• Justin Couch

• Leonard Daly

• Paul Fishwick

• Rick Goldberg

• Braden McDaniel

• Nicholas Polys

• Dick Puk

• Sandy Ressler

• Joe D. Williams

Resources

• X3D Working Group
  • http://web3d.org/x3d.html

• Daly Realism - X3D
  • http://realism.com/Web3D/x3d/

• Web3D Art
  • http://www.vrml-art.org/

• News on Web-Based 3D
  • http://e3DNews.com/

Questions

Introducing X3D

Overview

http://realism.com/Web3d/x3d/s2002