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Foil 15 History of VRML

From Distributed Simulation (DIS,HLA) HPCC and the Object Web Visit to ARL Aberdeen -- June 5-6 97. by Wojtek Furmanski


The first release of The VRML 1.0 Specification was created by Silicon Graphics, Inc. and based on the Open Inventor file format.
The second release of VRML added significantly more interactive capabilities. It was designed by the Silicon Graphics VRML team with contributions from Sony Research and Mitra.
The first official version of the VRML 2.0 specification was published on August 4, 1996.
The latest draft of the specification, VRML97 (April 1997), replaces the August 4th version and has been submitted to ISO as a Draft International Standard (DIS).



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