Designed to bring real-time 3D interaction to the World Wide Web, VRML is rapidly becoming the most important standard in the VR industry. For people already involved with the VR industry, VRML represents the first serious attempt to bring some order to the chaos of 3D graphics file formats. For Web users, it represents a challenging new medium of expression.
Text is a very expressive medium, and for many types of information it's the ideal choice.
Images are two-dimensional, and are capable of expressing certain types of information much more concisely than text can. Similarities to HTML . The anchors used in VRML can link the user to another virtual world, or to any other type of document. VRML worlds can also reference resources elsewhere on the Web. For example, you can apply a photograph of a brick wall as a texture map on a wall in the virtual world.