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Try Mark Pesce's WebEarth (copy-and-paste "Current Earth" link into Carina) Visit Bricolage Plaza (clones may be crossing) Orbit near Starbase 3 Prowl the vrmLab Warehouse (now reconstructing as xVRML) View some test objects and worlds

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The extensible Virtual Reality Modelling Language

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Schema

The xVRML Core Schema is now at version 0.32.08.06 beta. Schema-skeletons for a Character base-class, and for Player Character and Non-Player Character classes are posted. The "Schema" menu in the navigation bar above provides links to:

• the 4 schemas
• documentation for the elements, attributes, and types
• example xwrl files

These schemas were built "by hand" using the oXygen editor. The schema documentation was generated by the xs3p schema documentation generator from DSTC Pty Ltd. The xwrl files were build "by hand" or converted by Carina.

Java

The "Java" menu in the navigation bar above provides links to:

• Java source code for a crude tree-viewer of xVRML worlds
• documentation for the Java classes in "javadoc" form

Specifications

The xVRML Specifications are now being developed as formal documentation, using the above-mentioned Schemas as "base documents".

Applications

A set of browser plugins and standalone viewers are now being developed by Prof. Sonstein and David Huffman (an RIT graduate student). One of the standalone viewers will use the Java™ programming language and the Java OpenGL package, so the viewer will be cross-platform. The browser plugin set will support both the Mozilla plugin architecture (so it will work in most browsers) and the ActiveX plugin approach (so it will work in IE on the PC).

Focus

Project energy is focused on developing technology-demonstration implementations of standalone viewers, a set of browser plugins, documentation, and a refined set of schemas.

Future

Work has begun on building a package (net.xvrml.view) to display an instance of xVRML, on building a package (net.xvrml.controller) to support user-interface components, and on providing "hooks" for scripting using ECMAScript and Java.

Where in the Web Are You?

The extensible Virtual Reality Modelling Language Project is housed at the Rochester Institute of Technology, Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences, Information Technology Department. This site is maintained by Prof. Jeff Sonstein, a member of the Computer Mediated Experience Group, and is associated with the Center for Information Visualization and Interaction of the RIT Laboratory for Applied Computing.

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