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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
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