Charting The Next Generation's Browser by Mark Pesce Version 1.0 of the Virtual Reality Modeling Language is a static scene-description language. This is useful for architectural walk-throughs, scientific visualization and commercial applications but VRML has yet to meet important expectations. VRML's creators know this. We didn't have time to include interactive features in VRML 1.0.
Work continues, however.
We're breaking it down into baby steps. In a few weeks, specifications for VRML 1.x will appear and extend VRML's core features in three areas. Scalability VRML worlds scale badly. No computer can digest a virtual environment larger than a few tens of thousands of objects. To serve such environments, VRML 1.x browsers will use proximal caching. which treats the Web as a cache for a large virtual document space.