VRML

Method for creating 3D environments on the Web  . On a VRML page , it is possible to move around through a virtual room, pick up things, open a door etc. To see VRML pages your need a VRML plug-in  for your browser .

an Internet standard for 3-D animations called Virtual Reality Modelling Language (VRML). By going to most any WWW search engine, it is possible to use a combination of search terms for web sites on this topic. For example, using http://www.altavista.digital.com/ with the search term "VRML" resulted in 80,073 hits on December 22, 1996 and 359,660 hits on September 19, 1997. VRML is designed to be a dynamic extension of the HyperText Markup Language (HTML) standard that became the main component in the invention of the WWW in 1990 by particle physicists. In other words, VRML is intended for the WWW. Secondly, VRML is intended to be somewhat like VR in the ability to immerse participants into simulated 3-D worlds for education and entertainment. Thirdly, VRML can bring animation, audio, and 3-D reality to a MUD-type creation of imagined worlds and avatars in those worlds. However, VRML can also be used in a more mundane commercialization of the technology such as entering a simulation about being inside and operating a product such as a new model of automobile or a kitchen in an apartment complex that is still under construction. My favorite VRML repository is at the San Diego Super Computing Center at http://www.sdsc.edu/vrml/ . (See also Virtual Reality )

Pronounced ver-mal, and short for Virtual Reality Modeling Language, VRML is a specification for displaying 3-dimensional objects on the World Wide Web. You can think of it as the 3-D equivalent of HTML. Files written in VRML have a .wrl extension (short for world). To view these files, you need a VRML browser or a VRML plug-in to a Web browser.VRML produces a hyperspace (or a world), a 3-dimensional space that appears on your display screen. And you can figuratively move within this space. That is, as you press keys to turn left, right, up or down, or go forwards or backwards, the images on your screen will change to give the impression that you are moving through a real space.The new VRML 2.0 specification was finalized in August, 1996. It is known officially as ISO/IEC 14772.

Virtual Reality Modelling Language.A draft specification for the design and implementation language for virtual reality scene description.It is widely used for games and educational purposes.

Stands for "Virtual Reality Modeling Language." If you think this has something to do with HTML, you're right. HTML (hyper-test markup language) is the format for Web page navigation. VRML, created by the smart people at Silicon Graphics and Intervista Software, is a 3D navigation specification, which enables the creation of 3D web sites.