{"id":75391,"date":"2017-02-06T06:25:53","date_gmt":"2017-02-06T06:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/product\/uncategorized\/web-scene-specification-now-available\/"},"modified":"2020-01-29T01:53:15","modified_gmt":"2020-01-29T09:53:15","slug":"web-scene-specification-now-available","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/3d-gis\/3d-gis\/web-scene-specification-now-available","title":{"rendered":"Web scene specification now available"},"author":7011,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":""},"categories":[23771,37101],"tags":[549072,27511],"industry":[],"product":[36551,36601],"class_list":["post-75391","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-gis","category-announcements","tag-esrirdzurich","tag-web-scene","product-arcgis-online","product-developers"],"acf":{"short_description":"The\u00a0web scene specification\u00a0is the standard for scenes on\u00a0ArcGIS platform. 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