On Sun, May 10, 2015 at 5:18 PM, Tim Starling tstarling@wikimedia.org wrote:
On 10/05/15 07:06, Brian Wolff wrote:
People have been talking about vr for a long time. I think there is more pressing concerns (e.g. video). I suspect VR will stay in the video game realm or gimmick realm for a while yet
Maybe VR is a gimmick, but VRML, or X3D as it is now called, could be a useful way to present 3D diagrams embedded in pages. Like SVG, we could use it with or without browser support.
This is pretty cool. There are some examples at <http://examples.x3dom.org/
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Simple example: a ball-joint pendulum: < http://examples.x3dom.org/physics/ballJoint_pendulum.html%3E Complex example: a liver: < http://liveranatomyexplorer.steven-birr.com/index.php?site=start%3E