Virtual Rome: A FOSS approach to WEB3D

The goal of VirtualRome project (www.virtualrome.it) is to provide a web-based infrastructure for distribution, collection, annotation and sharing over the web of 3D interactive content such as actual and reconstructed landscape. For this project we have developed a framework for the integration of 3D realtime application within web browsers; the full functionality is currently available only for Windows Firefox, limited versions are available for Firefox Linux and Explorer. We present a completely FOSS approach to the web deployment of a 3d database consisting of landscape data at different time and different resolution. Components of a deployment platform will be analyzed and We will outline our approach comparing with other available systems.