Future of 3D Graphics on the WWW

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Future of 3D Graphics on the WWW
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Introduction
Problem Access powerful graphics on Internet
Example Online Games Online Virtual
Reality Tour
Problem More bandwidth is required to transfer
VR World to browser. Problem
increase when complex textures are used.
Example Download complex graphics from WWW
Solution Use streaming technology
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Introduction
VRMLs Problems

• Scalability
• Lacks of Interactivity

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CURRENT EXISTING TECHONOLOGY DEVELOPMENTS
PURE JAVA WEB 3D SOLUTIONS
Require no plug-ins
Java Applets are download to access WWW
Examples Anfy3D, 3DAnywhere and Shout3D.
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CURRENT EXISTING TECHONOLOGY DEVELOPMENTS
WILD TANGENT Inc
Give access to DirectX hardware acceleration via
any scripting language.
Uses DirectX-based architecture to utilize most
graphics cards capabilities.
For streaming purposes, the Drivers file
compression streaming capabilities splits
apart the components of a multimedia
presentation and send them via internet.
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CURRENT EXISTING TECHONOLOGY DEVELOPMENTS
OPENGL IN JAVA (OPENSOURCE)
GL4JAVA library
Implements window handle functions
Its cross-platform architecture supports Win32,
X-Window, Mac.
It comes without warranty nor user support.
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CURRENT EXISTING TECHONOLOGY DEVELOPMENTS
OpenGL vs. JAVA 3D

• GL4JAVA only can access to OpenGL/GLU commands.
• Toolkits like GLUT, texture management, etc. are
  also provided.
• Java3D relying on DirectX and OpenGL.
• Java3D provides parsers for loading objects,
  functions to
• manipulate scene objects, such as
  texturing, morphing and etc.
• It contains much functionality.
• Java 3D is much easier to use because it is a
  high level API.

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CURRENT EXISTING TECHONOLOGY DEVELOPMENTS
STAND-ALONE BROWSER
Schmoozer A 3D Virtual Reality / Distributed
Virtual Environment
application authoring tool. It is not a
browser. - A multi-user API and set of
network protocols, including
(ISTP). - It is an authoring environment
and a run-time environment. - Extensible
by users.
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CURRENT EXISTING TECHONOLOGY DEVELOPMENTS
CYCORE CULT3D

• impressive for E-commerce
• Macintosh and Linux-compatible plug-in
  available.
• placing 3D into both Microsoft Office
  applications and Adobe
• Acrobat documents.
• have very high quality rendered surfaces and
  interactive.

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CURRENT EXISTING TECHONOLOGY DEVELOPMENTS
EXTENSIBLE 3D FORMAT (X3D)

• (X3D) sought to finally address the limitations
  of the existing
• VRML97 and 2.0 specifications.
• The benefits of X3D lie in its open architecture
  and its extensibility.
• a development package could add new features.
• target applications for X3D are e-commerce and
  technology
• demonstration, visual simulation, games and
  entertainments,
• augmented reality, etc.
• its tight integration with XML, compatible with
  VRML, MPEG-4
• and HTML.

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THE NEED OF 3D WEB DEVELOPMENTS
Business and E-Commerce

• viewable from any angle or resolution
• giving customers the ease of examining products
  online where they can manipulate the objects,
  change the view to every angles possible

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THE NEED OF 3D WEB DEVELOPMENTS
Streaming 3D

• 3D presentation would require a large quantity of
  data, which in turn requires much download for
  the user.
• MetaStream is promoting a new 3.0 version of its
  streaming 3D Web technology
• WebGlide provides a mixture of 3D and video
  combining "showrooms" rendered in 3D with video
  feeds of products, combined with a shopping
  system.
• Bandwidth has always been a limiting factor for
  Internet applications

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THE NEED OF 3D WEB DEVELOPMENTS
3D in Vector Form

• Macromedia's Flash and Shockwave exported 3D
  animation to vector frames to create examples of
  3D,load up to 100 times faster than a VRML
  environment.
• Swift 3D allows you to create simple animations
  with 3D primitives, materials/textures, and
  lighting, as well as text. Swift 3D imports 3DS
  models,
• SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) standard is a
  developing technology can be used for building
  games, Web sites, or anything that you've seen in
  Flash files, but now it can be in 3D.

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THE NEED OF 3D WEB DEVELOPMENTS
Entertainment

• has suffered from the lack of support
• Therefore a technology called "3DML" creates, or
  "describes" Internet-ready three-dimensional
  SPOTs (miniature VR worlds) was created.
• it allows you to build a 3D space on the Web
  without doing any 3D modeling.
• Flatland 3DML has built-in hot Spots, collision
  detection, and you can incorporate video in your
  Spot. Flatland Spots are delivered using the
  Flatland Rover browser plug-in

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THE NEED OF 3D WEB DEVELOPMENTS
Entertainment

• has suffered from the lack of support
• Therefore a technology called "3DML" creates, or
  "describes" Internet-ready three-dimensional
  SPOTs (miniature VR worlds) was created.
• it allows you to build a 3D space on the Web
  without doing any 3D modeling.
• Flatland 3DML has built-in hot Spots, collision
  detection, and you can incorporate video in your
  Spot. Flatland Spots are delivered using the
  Flatland Rover browser plug-in

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THE NEED OF 3D WEB DEVELOPMENTS
Entertainment

• Rover plug-in allows users to view the code for
  learning purposes
• Rover client has easy intuitive controls, with
  options for lighting, pixel block size, and
  remembering your locations thusRover client has
  easy intuitive controls, with options for
  lighting, pixel block size, and remembering your
  locations. 3DML's utility over a slow connection
  is impressive 3DML's utility over a slow
  connection is impressive.

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THE NEED OF 3D WEB DEVELOPMENTS
Multi-user Environments (Avatars)

• online communities, such as chat worlds inhabited
  by 3D avatars, and theme-based environments such
  as virtual tours.
• Blaxxun's Community Platform line includes
  complete worlds users can walk through with
  integrated chat management features.
• users can chat, purchase products, and hold
  meetings or collaborate on projects.
• Blaxxun's technology is E-commerce where virtual
  salespeople with limited artificial intelligence,
  answer your queries based on a database

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CONCLUSION

• to solve the problem of bringing 3D into the web
• The development of open source materials
• to bring the same stand alone qualities of a 3D
  application into effective distributive
• Problems to web 3D is the need to download
  various plug-ins, browsers and applications
• Thus the need to popularize a standard, to cast a
  major market share of web 3D products