The Web3D Consortium is a non-profit group open to industry, academic, government and individual members, committed to the creation and deployment of open, royalty-free ISO standards that enable interactive, real-time 3D on the Web. Our standard X3D is Web ready and supports wide range of applications. X3D runs on all platforms including laptops, tablets, phones, immersive headsets, and large-scale CAVES.  

Founded in 1997, we are an International, non-profit, member-funded, industry standards development organization. We develop and maintain open, royalty-free ISO standards for web-based 3D graphics. Our standard X3D (Extensible 3D) originated from VRML and is available in XML, Compressed Binary, and classic VRML formats. X3D is a scene-graph description language that integrates network-enabled 3D graphics and multimedia.  X3D design supports 3D models as Web pages and includes similarities to HTML pages.

New Member Package. Join our community events: Annual Web3D Conference and VR Hackathons. Web3D membership provides real benefits for 3D graphics communication, networking, leadership, marketing, and specification development. Formal Web3D Consortium By-Laws govern our organization.  Web3D members agree to follow the Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Policy for all technical contributions.  This approach protects a massive set of technology capabilities, keeping X3D and related standards royalty free for any use.

Review Membership Agreements: See attached documents [1]-[4] at the bottom of the page.

Apply for Membership

• Organizational/Directing Level Membership (select one of the choices 2-7)
• Professional/Student Level Membership (select the 8th or 9th choice)
• Community Level Membership (select last choice)

If you or your organization are a Web3D Consortium Member, please sign up for a username and password. You will need the coupon code from your employer to avoid paying a membership fee. All organizations receive a coupon code that provides free membership to its employees.

Overview of Membership Levels, Dues and Benefits

 See the Member Category Comparison page for a detailed comparison of the capability differences.

Definitions of Large, Standard and Small Organizations

Annual Dues payable for each level of membership vary according to the size of the member organization:

• "Large" organizations are
  • companies with $50M annual revenue or more
  • academic, military, or government organizations with 1,000 or more paid staff or faculty members;
• "Standard" membership is available to any
  • company with annual revenue from $5M to $50M
  • academic, military, or government organizations with 100 to 999 paid staff or faculty members;
• "Small" membership is available to any
  • company with annual revenue less than $5M
  • academic, military, or government organizations with less than 100 paid staff or faculty members
• Standard Professional membership dues are reduced for accredited students.

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• All Consortium members are empowered to participate in Consortium Working Groups and contribute to Consortium specifications before public deployment. 
• The Consortium works closely with the International Standards Organization (ISO), Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Health Level 7 (HL7), Metaverse Standards Forum, and other standardization bodies to maximize both interoperability and market opportunities for its membership.
• Members are also able to network with leading world-wide experts in Web3D technology to accelerate the delivery of their cutting-edge 3D platforms and applications. Web3D Consortium Recent Report. 

If you are planning to use open source standards for your commercial products to deliver the best, time-tested, stable 3D content to your customers. Now is the time to join the Web3D Consortium and cast your vote in this last stage to publishing ISO X3D 4.0 spec with several new features.  Show the industry you are the leader who is helping make interoperable 3D a reality.

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For more information about membership please send an email to: member_services@web3d.org.