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3D on the Webmore than it ever was

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Jon Peddie Research

Tracking Graphics and Multimedia

Kathleen Maher

kathleen@jonpeddie.research

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3D for all“... deployment of 3D

viewing technologies, such

as Shockwave 3D, will grow

from just over 21 million in

2001 to more than 559

million by 2007.”

We Were

Close

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So what went wrong?

Absolutely nothing

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The APIs

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The Browsers

Europe is adopting advanced browsers even more

rapidly

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The Hardware

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•Unity -- 3D game development platform

for Mac, Windows, Consoles, Browsers

•Molehill -- Adobe adds 3D acceleration for

Flash and Air

•WebGL -- Enables 3D acceleration for the

coming generation of browsers.

Momentum

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Timing is everything

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Broad acceptance in the developer

community

• Khronos reports

unprecedented volume of

traffic

• glAss contest with $2K prize

• 14 frameworks introduced as

tools to enable WebGL

development

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Cooliris

Flight of the Navigator,

Mozilla Volunteers

GPU Noise by

John Davis

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•WebGL provides a common, universal base for 3D on

the web via widely used standards including

•OpenGL ES -- Universally used on all mobile and

console, widely used on PCs

•Advanced HTML -- WebGL is exposed through the

HTML5 Canvas element

•WebGL is accessed via JavaScript

•WebGL has support in Apple WebKit, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Opera

The pieces are coming together

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WebGL what’s not to love?

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Games

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Scientific Visualization

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Consumer Visualization

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3D applications in a browsers

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Welcome to the modern world