Format

Virtual Reality Modeling Language

Summary

Name

Virtual Reality Modeling Language

Version

2.0

Identifiers

• PUID: fmt/94
• MIME: model/vrml

Format type

Model

Description

The Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML) is a file format for describing 3D interactive worlds and objects. It may be used in conjunction with the World Wide Web. It may be used to create three-dimensional representations of complex scenes such as illustrations, product definition and virtual reality presentations. VRML is capable of representing static and animated objects and it can have hyperlinks to other media such as sound, movies, and image. Interpreters (browsers) for VRML are widely available for many different platforms as well as authoring tools for the creation VRML files. VRML supports an extensibility model that allows new objects to be defined and a registration process to allow application communities to develop interoperable extensions to the base standard. There is a mapping between VRML elements and commonly used 3D application programmer interface (API) features.

Format encoding

Text

File extensions

wrl

Submitted by

The National Archives and Records Administration / The National Archives and Records Administration

Relationships

Is previous version of

• X3D 3.0

Is subsequent version of

• Virtual Reality Modeling Language 1.0

Internal signatures

Changelog

• V84

  Release date

  21 January 2016

  • Updated

    Virtual Reality Modeling Language 2.0: Added format type 'Model'.

• V60

  Release date

  11 June 2012

  • Updated

    Virtual Reality Modeling Language 2.0: Description information submitted by National Archives and Records Administration.

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