High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! VRML (Virtual Reality Modelling Language, pronounced vermal or by its initials, originally before 1995 known as the Virtual Reality Markup Language) is a standard file format for representing 3-dimensional (3D) interactive vector graphics, designed particularly with the World Wide Web in mind. It has been superseded by X3D. VRML is a text file format where, e.g., vertices and edges for a 3D polygon can be specified along with the surface color, UV mapped textures, shininess, transparency, and so on.