X3D-Based Virtual Reality Experiences in Water Museum Exhibitions

This paper discusses the work undertaken by the China Water Museum to develop X3D-based Water Museum Virtual Reality Experience System (WMVRES) to educate the public on water resources and the history of water. This system is to deal with difficulties in applying 3D information system in virtual reality experience, which is written in Extensible-3D(X3D) and Java. Administrators of this system manage information in 3D scene and the updated information can be saved in database automatically. Two key technologies are involved in this paper: Real-time rendering and Interaction. At the end of this paper, framework and major modules of the experience system are elaborated.