WebNet 97 - World Conference of the WWW, Internet, and Intranet
October/November - 1997
The facility of access to information in the World-Wide Web (WWW), the expanding availability of information technology, and the recent developments in the handling of multimedia data are all important steps towards a Global Information Infrastructure (GII) accessible to anyone, anywhere in the world. However, in order to achieve this accessible infrastructure, one should consider the aspects related to efficient communication. These aspects are addressed by this paper. A mobile WWW rendering application using VRML 2.0 (Virtual Reality Modeling Language) is introduced, the related problems are pinpointed and approaches to overcome them are proposed. We have developed an application that filters VRML scenes to render only parts selected by the user. It improves the interactive visualization within a mobile environment and is a further small step towards the GII.