早在上世纪90年代末，当我在读研究生VRML是要接管世界。我的同事和我建立了它有用和有趣的事情全部由地钩住了Java和Javascript的code。

Back in the late 1990s, when I was at grad school VRML was going to take over the world. My peers and I built all manner of useful and interesting things with it by hooking it up to Java and Javascript code.

当然，那时电脑是慢很多倍比现在 - 多核CPU是科幻小说或隐秘的研究项目和我们的VRML的应用程序运行，只是有点过于缓慢的主要的东西，赶在现实世界

Of course back then computers were many times slower than they are now - multicore CPUs were largely the stuff of science fiction or hush-hush research projects and our VRML applications ran just that little bit too slowly to catch on in the real world.

一个十年，甚至是廉价的PC与沼泽标准的GPU将愉快地运行任何我们的VRML模型方便和可能可能需要节流，以确保他们没有那么快，无法使用。但是，VRML社区已经去世了一下死亡，网页-3D还没有流行起来，我甚至不能找到一个浏览器插件。 X3D被提及而回，但同样也没有流行起来。

A decade on, even a cheap PC with a bog-standard GPU would happily run any of our VRML models with ease and possibly might require throttling to ensure they weren't so fast as to be unusable. But the VRML community has died a bit of a death, web-3d hasn't caught on and I can't even find a browser plug-in. X3d was mentioned a while back but that too hasn't caught on.

没有任何人有什么事什么想法？有一些其他的3D网页技术，我不知道呢？

Does anybody have any ideas what happened? Is there some other 3D web technology I'm not aware of?

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我同意许多事情上面张贴。但另一个问题是，在很短的时间内，大部分的工具和浏览器开发商被收购由彼此，而最终结果是许多工具走了，远远领先的浏览器，科斯莫，冠群的所有权下的来了，其中下降都支持（甚至可用下载）。

I agree with much of what was posted above. However another problem was that within a very short time most of the tool and viewer developers got bought out by one another, with the eventual result that many tools went away and the leading viewer by far, Cosmo, came under the ownership of Computer Associates, which dropped all support (and even availability for download).

科尔托纳是仍然可以作为一个VRML观众，因为有一些等等。

Cortona is still available as a VRML viewer, as are some others.

添加更多的给我的答复有点为二○一四年一月一十三日： X3DOM 是一个主动链接HTML5和使用X3D的一个子集（基于XML的语法后继VRML）声明3D内容。它现在在许多浏览器可用未经插件。所以，在巨蟒的话说，它是还没死。此外，你仍然可以看到它作为一个通用的，标准化的导入和/或导出格式，例如，在搅拌机。即使Matlab具有其模拟环境的一些支持和出口的3D人物（尽管当我试图在图形输出，结果是pretty的坏）。

Adding a bit more to my reply as of 1/13/2014: X3DOM is an initiative to link HTML5 and declarative 3D content using a subset of X3D (the XML-based syntax successor to VRML). It's now usable in many browsers without a plug-in. So, in the words of Monty Python, it's "not dead yet." Also, you'll still see it as a common, standardized import and/or export format, e.g., in Blender. Even Matlab has some support for their simulation environments and to export 3D figures (although when I tried the figure export, the results were pretty bad).