Method for creating three-dimensional environments on the Web, in which users can move around in virtual "rooms" or other spaces. Viewing VRML Web pages requires a VRML plug-in for a browser.
program ming language that supports graphical animation of virtual spaces of World Wide Web page s. Detailed three-dimensional image s can be created with small programs, allowing the programs to arrive quickly at users1/4 computers and be viewed easily with special VRML browser applications.
Similar to SGML and HTML, the Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML) provides a way to textually represent objects in a three-dimensional virtual world, defining color, size, shape, lighting factors, and so forth.
3-D modeling language standard designed for network application.
Can be thought of as a 3-D version of HTML. VRML defines behaviors through which the user navigates using a VRML browser.