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The vision of 'The Second Web' is becoming a reality through the growing use and availability of VRML, or Virtual Reality Modelling Language and x3D. This language allows the design of explorable multi-user 3-D spaces, complete with sound, animation, and video incorporation, which can be contained and distributed over the World Wide Web.

Gibson, Timothy Leary, and Terence McKenna, and Jaron Lanier have envisioned the potent future and philosophical implications of 'Cyber-Space' and 'Virtual Reality' over 15 years ago; meanwhile, thousands of computer and information technologists have developed VRML, possibly the most massive, industry-wide collaboration, for an international standard format now in its 2.0 specification. VRML is a viable and vibrant technology today and promises to evolve and grow without bound in coming years. VRML can be used in conjuction with Java, JavaScript, and a variety of databases.