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VRML Worlds 3D graphics
File type: Text file, 3d graphics, CAD-CAM-CAE file
Files with wrl file extension can be primarily found as 3D content based on the VRML (Virtual Reality Modeling Language) that is used for representing 3-dimensional (3D) interactive vector graphics, designed particularly with the World Wide Web in mind.
File type category:
Text file
3d graphics, CAD-CAM-CAE file
Date updated: June 23, 2025
File extension wrl is associated with VRML (Virtual Reality Modelling Language), a standard file format for representing 3-dimensional (3D) interactive vector graphics, designed particularly with the World Wide Web in mind.
VRML is a text file format where, e.g., vertices and edges for a 3D polygon can be specified along with the surface color, image-mapped textures, shininess, transparency, and so on. URLs can be associated with graphical components so that a web browser might fetch a web-page or a new VRML file from the Internet when the user clicks on the specific graphical component.
Animations, sounds, lighting, and other aspects of the virtual world can interact with the user or may be triggered by external events such as timers. A special Script Node allows the addition of program code (e.g., written in Java or JavaScript (ECMAScript)) to a VRML file.
VRML files are commonly called "worlds" and have the .wrl extension (for example island.wrl). Although VRML worlds use a text format they may often be compressed using gzip so that they transfer over the internet more quickly. Many 3D modeling programs can save objects and scenes in VRML format.
Although VRML worlds use a text format, they may often be compressed using gzip so that they transfer over the internet more quickly (some gzip compressed files use the wrz).
MIME types:
x-world/x-vrml
application/x-world
model/vrml
x-world/x-vrml
Plenty of 3D modeling programs support VRML format and can open and edit it.
Aside from 20 years of misconceptions, the VRML file format is one of the best 3D formats for high quality and lossless data translation. With proper 3D importers and exporters, it will allow for one of the highest quality conversions of non-CAD data, including all vertex attributes such as vertex normals, uv texture coordinates, vertex colors, etc. Hierarchy, meta data, lights, cameras and animation can also pass through the VRML2 file format.
Software applications that can open wrl files:
Microsoft Windows
Apple macOS / Mac OS X
Linux/Unix
Software applications that can edit wrl files:
Software capable of saving wrl files:
Software apps that create wrl files:
Software apps that import wrl files:
Microsoft Windows
On-line services
3D Transform
Software apps that export wrl files:
Microsoft Windows
Software apps that print wrl files:
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