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Google jump-starting 3D Web with O3D
By Find2k | April 22, 2009
A new update all again from our very own search giant Google. Now Google tries jump-starting 3D Web with O3D.
Google plans to release software called O3D on Tuesday to bring accelerated 3D graphics to browsers, a significant effort but not the only one to try to endow Web applications with some of the computing muscle that PC programs can use.
O3D is a browser plug-in for Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, and Chrome that works on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux, but Google hopes eventually the technology will be build directly into browsers. It provides an interface that lets developers’ Web-based JavaScript programs tap directly into a computer’s graphics chip, technology that could mean better games and other applications.
Google isn’t the only one to aspire to 3D Web. In the 1990s, a technology called Virtual Reality Markup Language (VRML) bubbled up but never caught on. Today’s Internet, is a different beast, not least because major powers such as Google, Yahoo, and even Microsoft are advancing the frontiers of what can be done with a Web-based application.
“The time is right for 3D content to move onto the Web”, said Henry Bridge, associate product manager.
Read more here at CNet News
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