Format

Virtual Reality Modeling Language

Summary

Name

Virtual Reality Modeling Language

Version

1.0

Identifiers

• PUID: fmt/93
• MIME: model/vrml

Format type

Model

Description

The Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML) is a language for describing multi-participant interactive simulations - virtual worlds networked via the global Internet and hyper-linked with the World Wide Web. All aspects of virtual world display, interaction and internetworking can be specified using VRML. It was created with the goal of becoming the standard language for interactive simulation within the World Wide Web. The first version of VRML allows for the creation of virtual worlds with limited interactive behaviour. These worlds can contain objects which have hyper-links to other worlds, HTML documents or other valid MIME types. Nodes are arranged in hierarchical structures called scene graphs, which also define an ordering of the nodes.

File extensions

wrl

Source

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

Relationships

Is previous version of

• Virtual Reality Modeling Language 2.0

Internal signatures

Changelog

• Updated in V84

  Release date

  21 January 2016

  Virtual Reality Modeling Language 1.0: Added format type 'Model'.

• Updated in V60

  Release date

  11 June 2012

  Virtual Reality Modeling Language 1.0: Description information submitted by National Archives and Records Administration.