| Seattle,
WA - May 29th, 2007 - The Web3D Consortium today announced the official
availability of the X3D Conformance Testing Program. As part of the
official release of the program,also announced today that the
first three products have been verified under the Conformance Test
Process. Yumetech's Xj3D Toolkit successfully passed all tests, making
it the only cross platform toolkit for Windows, OS X, and Linux that
fully complies with the X3D standard. The open-source toolkit
maintained by Yumetech Inc. continues to be at the forefront of the X3D
movement. "The X3D Conformance Test Program ensures that X3D browsers provide a satisfying and consistent user experience," said Dr. Don Brutzman, co-chair of the X3D working group and co-author of the recent book X3D: Extensible 3D Graphics for Web Authors published by Morgan Kaufman. "Content creators can be sure that their work will play in all browsers, while browser companies can still compete on performance and features. Conformance is a win-win situation and a key requirement for Web-wide 3D." Participants: Yumetech, Inc. was formed to develop innovative and compelling real-time, networked 3D computer graphics applications. Its founders, recognized experts in their fields with eight books and numerous articles to their credit, bring a variety of knowledge and experience to the company. The company manages over one-half million lines of open source code and has successfully completed several projects based on this code for companies and organizations such as Sun Microsystems, Vcom3D, University, NASA, and the U.S. Military. Yumetech is the leading contributor to the Xj3D Toolkit: an open source implementation of the VRML 97 and X3D specifications. This codebase is the sample implementation for the X3D specification for standardization purposes. Two of the company?s members were major contributors to the X3D specification and current serve on the X3D Specification Team. The Web3D Consortium is a member-funded industry consortium committed to the creation and deployment of open, royalty-free standards that enable the communication of real-time 3D across applications, networks, and XML web services. The Consortium works closely with the ISO, MPEG and W3C standardization bodies to maximize market opportunities for its membership. All Consortium members are empowered to participate and vote in Consortium working groups and are able to accelerate the delivery of their cutting-edge 3D platforms and applications through access to specification drafts and conformance tests before public deployment. More information on the Consortium and Consortium membership is available at www.web3d.org. |