From ZDNet UK: Industry standards for 3-D on the Internet are close to international agreement, with the release of a working draft for the key specification.

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Editor's Note: The new language will be called X3D, extensible markup language, which "could follow VRML 97 in becoming an ISO standard by 2004." What do Kairosnews readers think? Some people love the bells and whistles; others can't stand them. It seems Flash and Shockwave were It for a while, but then people got annoyed and clicked on "Skip Intro." Is it going to take broadband for folks to get into fancy 3D graphics?