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X3D/VRML Browser
X3D/VRML are markup languages to create VR based websites. Although both are explicitely planned as Desktop VR applications and not for use with HMDs, I think it would be an improvement if someone wou...
There's a guy in another thread in this subsection who is working on an NSAPI plugin for browser support for the Rift. NSAPI plugins are supposed to be very portable between browsers, and from what I can see at least the dev channel build of chrome supports X3D. - So yes, this is the right subforum. =)
Generally projects coming out of universities have the problem that as soon as the student graduates they have very little time to continue their work, and often they get absorbed by the industry with tasks which to some degree prevent them from doing so. I often come across great projects from universities, based on platforms which never 'made it'.
The project at https://github.com/x3dom/x3dom/ seems to be lively enough. It is backed by Fraunhofer, which was also behind the MP3 file format. Interesting. =3
Generally projects coming out of universities have the problem that as soon as the student graduates they have very little time to continue their work, and often they get absorbed by the industry with tasks which to some degree prevent them from doing so. I often come across great projects from universities, based on platforms which never 'made it'.
The project at https://github.com/x3dom/x3dom/ seems to be lively enough. It is backed by Fraunhofer, which was also behind the MP3 file format. Interesting. =3