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VRML was conceived in the spring of 1994 at the first annual World Wide Web Conference in Geneva, Switzerland.
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Tim Berners-Lee and Dave Raggett organized a Birds-of-a-Feather (BOF) session to discuss Virtual Reality interfaces to the World Wide Web.
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Several BOF attendees described projects already underway to build three dimensional graphical visualization tools which interoperate with the Web.
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Attendees agreed on the need for these tools to have a common language for specifying 3D scene description and WWW hyperlinks -- an analog of HTML for virtual reality.
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The term Virtual Reality Markup Language (VRML) was coined, and the group resolved to begin specification work after the conference.
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The word 'Markup' was later changed to 'Modeling' to reflect the graphical nature of VRML.
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