Adobe, Boeing and Intel Join Top 3D Graphics to Develop Universal Standards
April 21, 2004
Las Vegas, NV - Adobe, Boeing, Intel Corporation and more than 30 other companies announced the formation of the 3D Industry Forum. The goal of the group is to remove technical barriers and promote the adoption of a common standard so interactive 3D content can be as widely used online and in business as digital audio, video and photos.
This cross-industry group of developers and corporate users of 3D graphics technology will work with Ecma International, an international standards body, on a Universal 3D Format proposal as an ISO standard.
The power of interactive 3D graphics to communicate ideas, to educate and entertain is widely understood. But even as bandwidth and computing performance has increased across corporations, a lack of standards for experiencing and sharing 3D content online and among standard applications has limited its use outside of the engineering and design communities.
A universal standard for repurposing 3D content, such as product designs, would enable companies and educators to make interactive simulations a common training tool. Electronic owners' manuals could provide interactive guides for maintaining and repairing cars, boats, planes and other equipment. Customers of online catalogs could try products based on the 3D computer models used to produce them.
The 3D Industry Forum
The 3D Industry Forum began when Intel researchers gathered a group of leading 3D graphics hardware and software developers together to discuss the implications of a establishing a common standard for sharing 3D content over the web. Additional discussions with corporate users of 3D graphics revealed a common desire to repurpose the 3D assets they developed for product design across the corporation in training, documentation, marketing, sales, as well as over the Web. Today, there are more than 30 members of the Forum. The goals of the 3D Industry Forum are:
Creation of a common standard for sharing interactive 3D content
To provide tools and information for the use of these technologies
Establish a community for on-going industry initiatives and development in 3D graphics
Promotion of industry growth and ecosystem development for the 3D graphics market
The first version of the Universal 3D open format will be released later this year with a sample player and runtime libraries to support adoption and implementation. Key features will include streaming and compression, animation and the capability for end users to begin interacting with the content before the entire file is downloaded to its destination.
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