Virtual Reality Modelling: a revolutionary approach to Environmental Protection
 
Virtual environments will begin to appear all over the net.
Some will be realistic, some abstract. Some will be functional,
others creative. Some will be informative, somefanciful. … But they
will all be “real” in a way that text and pictures by themselves can never be.
Steven Matsuba, Bernie Roehl
“Using VRML”
 
        Virtual Reality Modelling Language (VRML, often pronounced ver-mul) is the open standard for virtual reality on the Internet. VRML is to immersive 3-D on the Internet what HTML is to 2-D. Instead of having a flat page, there is a world you can move around in with the help of some VRML browser or viewer.
        Virtual Reality Modelling Language (VRML) is a language for describing worlds; i.e. not static images, or even movies, but real, three-dimensional worlds that you can move around in and explore. When you call up a VRML file, you’re not retrieving information – you’re entering a world.  In time, the objects in those worlds will acquire the ability to move and change and respond to human interaction.
        Recent development, especially in 1998, of  3-D modelling on the Internet: for building scenes, browsing them, for programming VRML tools, gives new way of net communications. Achievements made in EU countries need to be promoted to European CIS countries.