If you’ve ever read about WebGL and wondered what it could do, Lights will be a great example for you. In short, WebGL is a way to display 3D graphics in the browser, without the need for a plugin.

As the browser becomes more like an operating system, we are seeing more deep features being built into them. For example, you can now do a form of assembly language for the browser. Sophisticated ...

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The Khronos Group revealed this week that it will move forward with its plans to build a new 3D standard for the Web. Khronos, a technology industry consortium that developed OpenGL and a number of ...

Microsoft has released Babylon.js v3.0, the newest and most complete version of their JavaScript 3D and game engine. The raw technology behind this is WebGL which "is the technology that lets web ...

The Khronos Group, the same industry consortium that on Monday released the OpenGL 3.2 specification, on Tuesday announced WebGL, a new initiative that its proponents hope will drive a standard for ...

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Sony PlayStation 4 is grabbing all the headlines these days before and after its release. Now that the system is out, more details about the hardware and software are surfacing. Sony’s Don Olmstead is ...

The upgrade you didn’t know you had: WebGL was included in the latest revision of Android 2.3 for Sony Ericsson’s 2011 Xperia smartphones. The upgrade you didn’t know you had: WebGL was included in ...