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Mission Statement:
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VRML (Virtual Reality Modeling Language) is an interpreted language for describing multi-participant interactive simulations - virtual worlds networked via global Internet and hyperlinked within the World Wide Web.
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History:
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VRML concept was proposed by Tim Berners-Lee and David Ragget in spring '94 during the first WWW conference in Geneva. After the conference the VRML forum was created by Mark Pesce to discuss the development of a specification. In May '95 the first version of specification was available.
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Current status:
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VRML is still under development.
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The currently available specification describes version 1.0.
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Next version - 1.1 only specified small changes and was superceded by version 2.0.
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Version 2.0 was released in May '96 but there is competition from activeVRML (Microsoft) and Java3D (SGI) which has support for richer subset of Inventor.
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