Demo: An X3D Extension for Declarative 3D Style Sheets

This paper presents a demonstration of an interactive 3D video on demand catalogue based on an innovative extension proposal to the X3D standard for 3D style sheets representation (X3DSS). This extension provides Web3D designers with a declarative way to build groundbreaking 3D graphical user interfaces (3DGUI) for Web3D. Thanks to new nodes allowing accessing a well-structured set of contents, the solution we propose offers many benefits. Indeed, this X3D extension takes advantage of both 3D declarative formats and style sheets. Firstly, the presented solution provides web3D designers with all essential features of X3D for building innovative 3DGUIs. Secondly, the extension brings the key features of a style sheet that enable the separation of the presentation and interaction semantics from the document content, well-suited for dynamic contents and presentation reusability. X3D based 3D style sheet offers a high level declarative representation pooling both requirements of the Web and 3D graphics community.