History of VRML

History VRML was conceived in the spring of 1994 at the first annual World Wide Web Conference in Geneva, Switzerland. Tim Berners-Lee and Dave Raggett organized a Birds-of-a-Feather (BOF) session to discuss Virtual Reality interfaces to the World Wide Web. Several BOF attendees described projects already underway to build three dimensional graphical visualization tools which inter-operate with the Web. Attendees agreed on the need for these tools to have a common language for specifying 3D world …showed first 75 words of 455 total…

…showed last 75 words of 455 total…to bootstrap VRML viewer development. This is a clarified version of the 1.0 specification. No features have been added or changed from the original 1.0 version of the spec. This is a 'bug-fix' release of the spec, correcting misspellings, vague wording and misleading examples, and adding wording to better define the semantics of VRML. By [2] BELL, G.; PARISI, A.; PESCE, M. The Virtual Reality Modeling Language, Version 1.0C Specification, 1996. http://www.vrml.org/VRML1.0/vrml10c.html