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• 02.06.09
  Standards-Based Mirror World Under Development Applications and Tools, Virtual World Platforms, Visualization in 3D | (2)

  Damon at the Metaverse One blog recently wrote about X3D-Earth, a new 'extensible 3D (X3D) Earth project' under development by the Web 3D Consortium. X3D is intended to be used by just about everyone. The X3D Web site describes the mission: "The X3D-Earth project will create a standards-based 3D visualization infrastructure for visualizing all manner of real-world objects and information constructs in a geospatial context." It is funded by the National Science Foundation and its suppoters include the World Wide Web Consortium and the Open Geospatial Consortium. The flip-side to X3D is Google Earth (GE), which is the most widely-used mirror world ...

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