14.02.2014 Uncategorized
Meteor blocks is a new fun and interesting online 3D editor, using X3DOM for visualization. It enables users to create simple objects which consist of colored 3D blocks, or “3D pixels”.
Give it a try at http://3d.meteor.com/!
23.12.2013 Uncategorized
The X3DOM team wishes you and your families Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2014!
Additionally, we are happy to report that there is now also basic X3DOM/ WebGL backend support for MS Internet Explorer 11, although its current WebGL/ GLSL version is only 0.92, why some more advanced features are still missing here.
Finally, we’d like to announce the upcoming Web3D 2014 conference on August, 8 – 10, in Vancouver, Canada, and hope to see you there.
17.12.2013 Uncategorized
Content Studio is a modelling tool designed around X3D and can directly export X3DOM content. Content Studio by Bitmanagement allows for easy and fast creation of 3D scenes and apps through an intuitive interface. With X3DOM support those scenes can be easily exported and deployed to a wide variety of devices like smartphones, tablets, laptops, and desktop computers.
You can download Content Studio here. Also have a look at the developer videos on the same site (scroll down).
05.12.2013 Uncategorized
The current dev version includes now a new ‘turntable’ navigation mode.
The interface and implementation is not yet finalised but we tried to get this out as soon as possible since a large number of users asked for this navigation mode. Enjoy the example, which includes a compact description of the mode and parameters.
30.10.2013 Uncategorized
The slides (part 1 and part 2) from the X3DOM tutorial (given by Johannes and Yvonne) at the Digital Heritage 2013 conference in Marseille, France, are now online.
15.10.2013 Uncategorized
Three years ago, we did a first experiment with the Flash-based marker tracker FLARToolKit together with WebGL/X3DOM. However, at that time browsers did not yet provide an API to access the camera. Now, with the new WebRTC MediaStream API and a marker tracker implementation in JavaScript via JSARToolKit, we built a new version of that old AR demo, but this time without Flash or any other plugin to access the video stream. Try out the Augmented Reality demo here…
07.10.2013 Uncategorized
X3DOM developer Max Limper will present the pop buffer paper tomorrow at the Pacific Graphics 2013 event in Singapore. The novel technique enables web applications to stream progressive geometry data in x3dom, and the implementation is part of the 1.5 release.
23.09.2013 Uncategorized
EarthServer is an EU-funded project aimed at establishing open access and ad-hoc analytics on extreme-size Earth Science data. Part of this endeavor is the development of tools for 3D web access to these data endpoints that respect the protocols and languages common in the geospatial data processing domain, specifically various OGC standards. The EarthServer 3D Web Client middleware is built on top of X3DOM and currently under active development.
23.07.2013 Uncategorized
Bitmanagement software just released a new preview of BS Content Studio. The 3D authoring tool is focused on augmenting 3D geometries, which have been developed with the leading CAD-, GIS-, and Design Software programs, as well as other media content, with the possibility to interact, amendments like light and shadow effects, multi user feature and animation of motion sequences of objects and human beings.
And the best of all: the beta version allows you to directly export your created content to X3DOM scenes!
18.07.2013 Uncategorized
Join the dev-team of Instant Reality and X3DOM at the exhibition floor of SIGGRAPH 2013 in Anaheim. We’re located in booth #233 and will show you the latest and greatest in X3D web-technology, fusing desktop and web environments to create streaming applications. We will also bring along new hardware toys which have been added to Instant Reality, as well as a demonstration of the latest progressive mesh compression technique we’re developing right now. See you there!
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Researchers from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (Moss Landing, CA, USA) are helping us to gain understanding of our oceans by analyzing different kinds of data, taken by robots under the sea. Thanks to X3DOM, measured data can now also be visualized in a 3D Web application – you can give it a try by yourself!
Click here for a brief explanation of the application.
28.06.2013 Uncategorized
It’s really true. Windows 8.1 / IE 11 supports WebGL out of the box. There are still some issues with x3dom but we are currently working on it. Stay tuned!
20.06.2013 Uncategorized
Both X3DOM tutorials from this morning’s tutorial session at Web3D 2013 are online:
14.06.2013 Uncategorized
Thanks to Vincent Marchetti X3DOM now also supports most of the X3D CAD nodes as an optional component.
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At Web3D 2013 we will present X3DOM scenes using an Oculus Rift HMD with stereo and headtracking, which is supplied by the InstantIO server component via WebSockets. More information on the InstantReality page…
20.05.2013 Uncategorized
Most of the X3DOM developers will be at this year’s Web3D conference in San Sebastian, Spain, which takes place from June 19th to June 22nd 2013. There, we will have a tutorial on X3DOM (consisting of two parts) as well as some papers. So, if you are around, do not hesitate to talk to us or discuss your issues and feature requests with us. See you in Spain…
14.05.2013 Code Technical Uncategorized
Developer tools are mostly personal preference and there’s no right or wrong in choosing editors and IDEs. However, we feel there’s one IDE to mention which stands out of the crowd: The WebStorm IDE from JetBrains, creators of IDEA.
The WebStorm IDE is the JavaScript incarnation of IDEA and the one tool our X3DOM developers are crazy about. It makes writing code so much more fun and productive. Even die hard Vi guys started using it, and that means something. We are very grateful that JetBrains has been so generous to issue a free open source license of their WebStorm IDE to all X3DOM developers. We have been using WebStorm to develop X3DOM for 2 years now and we could not be happier. Thank you very much JetBrains.
22.04.2013 Showcase Uncategorized
Yet another interesting industrial show case from Frank Lamack, T-Systems, Germany. Goal of this solution is to build a web 3d based environment for distributed teams to enable collaborative design reviews or co-browsing with customers for sales, configuration and consulting sessions – on one common 3d product model: Without any plug-in or additional software licences – simply via web. Upcoming features: dimensioning, annotation on parts or co-design-editor, to transform 3d-shapes.
T-Systems Multimedia Solutions (MMS) develops web-based solutions for large corporations and medium-sized enterprises. Around 1.000 employees serve customers from every sector, developing web innovations for services used in domestic and commercial digital contexts. This includes e-commerce, information management and knowledge management. The actual developing team develops visual configuration solutions, that use 3D construction data and product meta data in combination with rule-based configurations for immersive e-sales and e-commerce applications for web or mobile devices.
03.04.2013 Uncategorized
At this year’s Hannover Messe Fraunhofer IGD presents interactive web applications for the visualization of e.g. simulation results using X3DOM. The developed interactive methods for scientific visualization (see left image) allow the user to gain insights, interpretations, and knowledge quickly. More information can also be found here. You’ll find us at booth B10 of the Fraunhofer Allianz SIMULATION in hall 7 (Digital Factory).
06.03.2013 Uncategorized
At this year’s CeBIT Fraunhofer IGD presents solutions for 3D Internet applications like the instant3DHub. The system generates and delivers 3D Web apps on-the-fly, which are tailored for specific use cases and device classes incl. tablets or smart phones. This way, for instance engineers and technicians are able to inspect 3D CAD data etc. on the Web and even on site. Another example are interactive 3D product presentations for online shopping. This new technology builds upon existing standards and uses the InstantReality framework for backend services as well as X3DOM for visualization.
Basically, the instant3DHub is a service architecture consisting of an app service for providing device and use case specific templates, a transcoder service for converting and caching 3D applications and data from existing resources, and finally a vis service for presentation on the Web.