A 3D web moves closer to reality
Friday, 17. April 2009, 08:22:49
The 3D web moved closer to reality as Mozilla, the developer of the Firefox browser, joined forces with graphics consortium Khronos. Khronos has set up a working group to create a standard for what it calls accelerated 3D graphics on the web.
It could lead to widespread browser-based gaming as well as creating 3D environments in social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace.
The aim is to produce a first public version within a year.
"For a number of reasons, I think now is the time to .. figure out what an initial take of 3D on the web should look like," said Mozilla's infrastructure engineer Vladimir Vukicevic in his blog.
"People are doing more and more on the web… adding 3D to this mix ensures that current web applications can experiment with new user experiences, while also enabling new classes of web applications," he said.
Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7963302.stm
It could lead to widespread browser-based gaming as well as creating 3D environments in social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace.
The aim is to produce a first public version within a year.
"For a number of reasons, I think now is the time to .. figure out what an initial take of 3D on the web should look like," said Mozilla's infrastructure engineer Vladimir Vukicevic in his blog.
"People are doing more and more on the web… adding 3D to this mix ensures that current web applications can experiment with new user experiences, while also enabling new classes of web applications," he said.
Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7963302.stm
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