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Microsoft reiterates stance on 'harmful' WebGL
Microsoft has made substantial efforts lately to increase their support of open standards even to the point of giving them first class treatment ahead of their home-grown formats. Internet Explorer 9...
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Cool WebGL-based map website. I won't Nokia for it.
WebGL is a web standard which attempts to bring the capacities of OpenGL to websites; I will refer to web applications as websites because that is what they are. There were a few WebGL experiments to...
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HTML5 Games: The Legacy of PC Gaming?
I use that title in quite a broad sense.I ran across an article on The Verge which highlighted the work of a couple of programmers to port classic Realtime Strategy games to the web browser. Command...
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Khronos Group Announces WebGL 1.0.2 Specification and Extensions, Formal...
The Khronos Group recently announced that the WebGL 1.0.1 specification is compliant across mobile and desktop systems on a number of platforms. Chrome 25 and Firefox 19 support WebGL 1.0.1 on Windows,...
View ArticleArtillery Games: Project Atlas. Full 3D RTS in Web Standards.
Web browsers are on a path toward legitimacy as application platforms. Almost anything can be programmed within HTML5, CSS, Javascript, and the various APIs (such as WebGL) integrated into modern web...
View ArticleMozilla's WebGL Shader Editor Looks Pretty Useful
Tools for web developers are pretty astonishing these days.You are able to investigate the driving elements and objects as they are being executed within the browser -- and even modify them. This...
View ArticleMonster Madness: A First For Web Standards
asm.js is a special division of Javascript, for numerical calculations, which can be heavily optimized and easily output by compilers for other languages such as C++. Both Mozilla Firefox and Google...
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Acer Unveils Chromebook 13 Powered By NVIDIA Tegra K1 SoC
Today Acer unveiled a new Chromebook powered by an NVIDIA Tegra K1 processor. The aptly-named Chromebook 13 is 13-inch thin and light notebook running Google’s Chrome OS with up to 13 hours of battery...
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Watch Notch Make a Doom Renderer in Dart and WebGL
Notch, creator of Minecraft, is developing a rendering engine for Doom in Dart and WebGL (I assume as a hobby). I am a little late to the party, and he has been developing for the last couple of hours...
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"gorescript" Is an Indie, Browser-Based 3D Shooter
gorescript is a first person shooter that runs in a browser through WebGL (via Three.JS). Its developer, Time Invariant Games, has not mentioned a business model, if there is one, but the first three...
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Graphics Developers: Help Name Next Generation OpenGL
The Khornos Group probably wants some advice from graphics developers because they ultimately want to market to them, as the future platform's success depends on their applications. If you develop...
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Tencent Buys Stake in Artillery Games
The Chinese investment and Web company, Tencent, has taken interest in many American video game companies. In a couple installments, Tencent purchased chunks of Riot Games, developer of League of...
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WebGL Leaves "Preview" with Unity 5.3
WebGL is a Web standard that allows issuing OpenGL ES 2.0-based instructions to compatible graphics cards, which is just about everything today. It has programmable vertex and fragment (pixel) shaders...
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WebGL2 Is On Its Way
The Khronos Group created WebGL to bring a GPU-accelerated platform to web browsers. With a few minor differences, it is basically JavaScript bindings for OpenGL ES 2.0. It also created a few standards...
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Legend of Zelda in WebGL Voxels
Before it invariably gets taken offline, you might want to check out a remake of the original Legend of Zelda. It's not just a straight port of the original, though. Its pixel art assets were remade in...
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Microsoft Open-Sources Their WebGL Implementation
Well that's something I never expected to write. It turns out that Microsoft has open-sourced a small portion of their Edge web browser. This is the part that binds OpenGL ES 2.0 functionality,...
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Basemark Releases Basemark Web 3.0 with WebGL 2.0
Basemark has just released Basemark Web 3.0, which includes WebGL 2.0 tests for supporting browsers. No browsers support the standard by default yet, although it can be enabled on Firefox and Chrome...
View ArticleArtillery Games: Project Atlas. Full 3D RTS in Web Standards.
Web browsers are on a path toward legitimacy as application platforms. Almost anything can be programmed within HTML5, CSS, Javascript, and the various APIs (such as WebGL) integrated into modern web...
View ArticleMozilla's WebGL Shader Editor Looks Pretty Useful
Tools for web developers are pretty astonishing these days.You are able to investigate the driving elements and objects as they are being executed within the browser -- and even modify them. This...
View ArticleMonster Madness: A First For Web Standards
asm.js is a special division of Javascript, for numerical calculations, which can be heavily optimized and easily output by compilers for other languages such as C++. Both Mozilla Firefox and Google...
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