WebGL is pretty far from VRML. VRML was doomed from the onset. 20 years later 3D does not have an generally agreed-upon standard markup. (Collada is a de-fac

WebGL is pretty far from VRML. VRML was doomed from the onset. 20 years later 3D does not have an generally agreed-upon standard markup. (Collada is a de-facto common editor format because of the lack of competition. Not because anyone likes it. And, it's explicitly not a content delivery format.) WebGL is an implementation layer for creating your own content delivery system in the same way that OpenGL is for desktop apps. OpenGL's approach has worked in practice for over 20 years. WebGL has done a good job of maintaining parity with iPads. As in, you can expect top-of-the-line iPad games to run at parity on decent PCs with decent WebGL implementations.