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Foil 23 VRML - Browsers II

From Overview of VRML SC95 Tutorial on Web Technologies -- December 4,95. by NPAC Team * See also color IMAGE
History
  • The very first 3D-Web browser was written by Tony Parisi & Mark Pesce in early 1994.
  • The first commercial browser: WebSpace - by Silicon Graphics
  • The publication of source code for VRML parsers by Silicon Graphics in late 1994 caused involvement of multiple companies in the process of developing VRML browsers.
Current status
  • Commercial and public domain browsers are currently available for almost all platforms
Limitations
  • Browsers differ in their support of VRML features such as LOD, Texture-Mapping, and WWW-Anchor. As the result not all VRML worlds can be viewed on all browsers.

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