Standards Strategy

The Web3D Consortium's goal is enable the open publishing of interactive 3D graphics models on the Web, enabling real-time 3D communication. 

Extensible 3D (X3D) Graphics includes a coordinated set of steadily evolving ISO standards.  X3D makes export and publication of interactive 3D models a first-class media type suitable for archival use.

Currently active X3D work includes multiple standardization initiatives:

• X3D Evolution of Capabilities (version 3.4) tracks the steady improvements of all 3D graphics (now being merged into 4.0)
• X3D HTML5 and Open Web Platform (OWP) Integration (version 4.0) for deployment in any Web page
• X3D Mixed and Augmented Reality (MAR) (version 4.1) for emerging VR-AR devices and user interfaces
• Humanoid Animation (H-Anim) face, hands and motion capture, also suitable for medical use
• X3D Compressed Binary Encoding for smaller, faster and streamable deployment
• X3D JSON Javascript Object Notation encoding for Javascript programmers

To achieve these goals, Web3D has multiple liaison partnerships with other standards development organizations.

Interested in participating? Great, please contact the Executive Director with your thoughts!  All feedback is welcome.