instantreality 1.0



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about

X3DOM (pronounced X-Freedom) is an experimental open source framework and runtime to support the ongoing discussion in the Web3D and W3C communities how an integration of HTML5 and declarative 3D content could look like. It tries to fulfill the current HTML5 specification for declarative 3D content and allows including X3D elements as part of any HTML5 DOM tree.

The goal here is to have a live X3D scene in your HTML DOM, which allows you to manipulate the 3D content by only adding/ removing or changing DOM elements. No specific plugin or plugin interface (like SAI) are needed. It also supports some of the HTML events (like “onclick”) on 3D objects. The whole integration model is still evolving and open for discussions.

We hope to trigger a process similar to how the SVG in HTML5 integration evolved:

  • Provide a vision and runtime today to experiment with and furthermore develop an integration model for declarative 3D in HTML5
  • Get the discussion in the HTML5 and X3D communites going and evolve the system and integration model
  • Finally it would be part of the HTML5 standard and supported by every major browser natively

    • More architectural and background information can be found in the X3DOM-paper (published at the Web3D symposium 2009).

    Alternatively you, as web-developer, can also just utilize the system today to build web-pages and applications, which include declarative (X)3D content that will be rendered hardware accelerated (thanks to WebGL) without the need for using any plugin.