A Language on fire!!    The Web language for the 21 Century... VRML is an acronym for "Virtual Reality Modeling Language". It is the International Standard (ISO/IEC 14772) file format for describing interactive 3D multimedia on the Internet.   VRML is a standard language for the animation and 3D modeling of geometric shapes. It allows for 3D scenes to be viewed and manipulated over the Internet in an interactive environment. Using a special VRML browser, the user can connect to an online VRML site, choose a 3D environment to explore and move around the '3D world'. It is possible to zoom in and out, move around and interact with the virtual environment.  VRML 1.0 worlds are static environments where you can navigate and click on objects to link to information.

These worlds can contain objects which have hyperlinks to other worlds, HTML documents or other valid MIME types. When the user selects an object with a hyperlink, the appropriate MIME viewer is launched. When the user selects a link to a VRML document from within a correctly configured WWW browser, a VRML viewer is launched. Thus VRML viewers are the perfect companion applications to standard WWW browsers for navigating and visualizing the Web.  VRML 2.0 takes VRML 1.0 and extends it with animation, behaviors, sensors and sounds. For more information on uses of VRML click some of the 3D pods on this page