The origins
of VRML date way back to the early 1994's.
At first
it was called "Virtual Reality Markup Language" to parallel
HTML
The origins
of VRML date way back to the early 1994's.
At first
it was called "Virtual Reality Markup Language" to parallel
HTML
Tim Berners-Lee
The VRML mailing
became a thriving community of artists, engineers, and visionaries.
First it was
based on the Open Inventor file format. VRML 1.0 was invented
In June 1996
VRML 2 was taken to ISO and quickly pushed through.
It went through so quickly that the committee started looking at the VRML process as a way to speed up the slow cumbersome ISO standards procedures.
AT Siggraph 96
VRML 2.0 was declared "not frozen, but done!" Which meant leave the creators
alone and start producing content.
Since then it has been declared dead a few times, alive a few times, and in limbo most of the time. It's still the leading 3D content language for the Internet but it hasn't dominated like they were expecting.
GEOVRML was the next hybrid, then X3D came around combining VRML and XML. VRML is easier to read and write so I'm going to stick with VRML syntax for this lecture.