Members collaboratively develop the X3D standards and tools making them widely adopted across diverse markets for academia, government, industry, and individuals.
The Consortium defines and develops the X3D royalty-free open standards file format and runtime architecture to represent and communicate 3D scenes.
Over recent years, advances in real time graphics and networking technology, and most notably the emergence of the Extensible Markup Language XML, have heavily influenced the development of the ISO-approved, freely available, X3D open standard.
It provides a system for the storage, retrieval and playback of real time graphics content embedded in applications, all within an open architecture to support a wide array of domains and user scenarios.
The organizations involved in this effort felt that the creation of an open consortium focused exclusively on Web3D would provide the structure necessary to stabilize, standardize, and nurture the technology for the entire community.