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Native browser gaming is evolving at a fast pace. HTML5 Canvas, the Audio API, WebGL and everything in between are becoming powerful tools capable of running full-blown games inside a browser. We're not quite there yet, but we're getting closer.
Bethesda has ported the original Wolfenstein 3D to the web in... |
10 May 2012
18:41 GMT |
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Gaming today is a multi-billion dollar industry, growing each year. First person shooters are among the top sellers, since they appeal to a large audience, but the high-tech graphics powerhouses of today can all trace their origins to one comparatively simpler game, Wolfenstein 3D, the game that "invented" first pers... |
9 May 2012
14:51 GMT |
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It may be a couple of months late but Google has finally launched the Google Maps game it teased in January. The game is now live, at playmapscube.com, but you're going to need a modern browser and a decent enough computer to run it. The game is built on WebGL and makes ample use of the 3D graphics and the 3D bu... |
28 April 2012
19:31 GMT |
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Google Maps has always had a strong photo component. The map of a place is great for getting your bearings and Street View may be useful for checking out the interesting places, but it's user photos that provide the best experience if you really want to enjoy a famous landmark or location.Thankfully, by definiti... |
25 April 2012
13:11 GMT |
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Google Chrome 18 has been pushed to the stable channel bringing with it two big new features, both related to graphics. On the one hand, HTML5 Canvas content is going to be hardware accelerated. On the other, it is now possible to run WebGL content without hardware acceleration.
"We’ve enabled GPU-accelerated ... |
29 March 2012
05:50 GMT |
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The Game Developers Conference is under way in San Francisco, so it's no wonder that plenty of companies are making announcements around this time. But among the usual players, you'll find some new ones as well, notably Google and Facebook.
Google has been pushing for gaming quite a lot recently, no wonder... |
6 March 2012
05:56 GMT |
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On Monday, at this year’s Mobile World Congress, Opera announced the release of the final flavor of its Opera Mobile 12 browser for Android and Symbian devices. As you can see in the video embedded above, we had the chance to have a look at the browser in Barcelona, where Opera showcased it on Android 4.0-bas... |
28 February 2012
10:47 GMT |
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WebGL opens up many possibilities for developers, perhaps more than any other modern web technology, since it allows for the creation of a new type of web apps that haven't been possible without it. WebGL uses a computer's GPU instead of the CPU for a lot of graphics horsepower. This comes in really handy ... |
20 February 2012
08:11 GMT |
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Google's Chrome Web Store hasn't taken the world by storm, but it has been growing, along with the browser. The recent update to the store has made it more interesting and a bit more useful, but it lives and dies by the apps in it.
Luckily for Google, the quality of the apps has been increasing lately, and... |
22 December 2011
02:45 GMT |
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Now that Opera 11.60 is out of the way, the focus is again 100 percent on Opera 12. In fact, the first post-Opera 11.60 snapshot release of Opera 12, which is still in 'alpha,' is out.
The latest update comes with all of the goodies and fixes from Opera 11.60 along with the features planned for Opera 12, i... |
8 December 2011
07:51 GMT |
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As the web becomes increasingly complex, people are trying to push the limits of what it can do. Browser makers build new technologies and developers find new ways of taking advantage of them.But, as the web begins to replace traditional operating systems it's encountering some of the typical problems of traditi... |
1 December 2011
15:01 GMT |
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Several weeks back, Sony Ericsson started to deliver a new software update to the Xperia devices that were launched during the ongoing year, and it seems that it included some unannounced enhancements with the software.
This makes Sony Ericsson’s Android devices the first in the world to include support WebGL... |
1 December 2011
05:30 GMT |
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Browsers are becoming more complex and more powerful. It's hardly surprising, since the web itself is becoming more complex and more powerful. Web applications today rival native applications of only a few years ago.And future web applications promise to be even more advanced. Thankfully, browser makers are doin... |
25 November 2011
15:31 GMT |
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Mozilla is introducing Popcorn, a HTML5 media toolkit that enables creators to make the most of the web when presenting their films online or to create entire interactive experiences around video.Popcorn is one of Mozilla's many projects designed to make use of the technologies that the modern web provides and t... |
7 November 2011
08:10 GMT |
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Mozilla is showcasing a very interesting tool for web developers, a 3D visualization debugger which uses WebGL to create a three-dimensional version of a page, to facilitate code inspection.It may sound like a gimmick, but this is a very interesting use of WebGL and something that web developers, those working with t... |
26 October 2011
16:11 GMT |
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Following the launch of the alpha release a week ago, which introduced hardware acceleration, a new build, 1116, of Opera Next has been rolled out. The current release focuses on improvements and fixes and does not bring anything new to the table. It dealt with a huge memory leak on Windows and features updates for ... |
20 October 2011
07:29 GMT |
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Everyone is talking about WebGL these days and, while it's still mostly just talk, things are finally moving in the right direction. Google recently showcased the rather impressive WebGL-powered MapsGL, a hardware accelerated version of Google Maps.Now though, it's back with yet another experiment, albeit o... |
19 October 2011
14:31 GMT |
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Opera 12 promises to be a landmark release for the browser maker, at least technologically. It will be the first version to include not only hardware acceleration, but also WebGL support.However, WebGL is not something that a regular user is going to need or stumble upon, unfortunately, quite often on the web.While G... |
17 October 2011
13:15 GMT |
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By now, you may have already noticed the WebGL experiment within Google Maps. Google has released a beta version of a rather ambitious plan to switch Google Maps to the 3D graphics technology. There are some caveats, you can read more about them here, but when and if it works, the technology is quite impressive. Movi... |
13 October 2011
14:41 GMT |
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Opera may be a bit late to the game, but it's got big plans for Opera 12, the upcoming release. This is the version that will finally get hardware acceleration as well as WebGL support. What's more, it seems that Opera worked hard to get it right and is accelerating quite a bit of features, including the en... |
13 October 2011
08:05 GMT |
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Google is experimenting with using WebGL to render Google Maps. It's a very interesting move which, while being experimental, showcases what 3D graphics can mean for the web.
If you're visiting Google Maps, you'll notice that you'll be able to switch to the new MapsGL, the WebGL-powered versio... |
13 October 2011
06:10 GMT |
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This alpha release for Opera (build 1105) has been announced at Up North Web conference earlier this week as a technological milestone in the development of the browser, because it introduces hardware acceleration. It's true that hardware acceleration is in alpha stage and only uses OpenGL backend, but the progr... |
13 October 2011
05:26 GMT |
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Opera is gearing up for a great release with Opera 12, which is still in pre-alpha mode. Apart from the small but noticeable updates to the UI, the big changes are under the hood. Opera 12 will be the first hardware accelerated Opera, the first to support WebGL out of the box and the first to come with the eagerly a... |
11 October 2011
08:41 GMT |
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Last week, Adobe boasted about Unreal Tournament 3 running on the latest version of its popular runtime, Flash Player 11. It was quite an impressive feat and a sign of things to come for web gaming.But don't think that it's going at it alone. Flash has some solid competition from the open standard WebGL. Wh... |
10 October 2011
12:08 GMT |
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Online games, meaning games that live on the web rather than games with an online component, are becoming increasingly popular. Zynga has hundreds of millions of players for its games, mostly on Facebook, for example.Most of these games are simple and aimed at casual gamers. As such, graphics don't matter as muc... |
4 October 2011
11:56 GMT |
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So far, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome are the only two browsers to offer WebGL support out of the box, enabled by default. That's not really surprising since Mozilla launched the initiative and Google joined early on.
Safari offers some WebGL support, though only with Safari 5.1 on Mac OS X Lion and disab... |
4 October 2011
04:24 GMT |
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Mozilla is working on pushing the web forward in a lot of ways, be it through its popular Firefox browser or, in some cases, via games. Mozilla is working on creating a game engine built entirely on standard web technology.
To test the engine and help develop it, Mozilla also built RescueFox.
The game is just a... |
3 October 2011
17:01 GMT |
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Mozilla is best known for its biggest product, Firefox, but the organization has several other interests. Its stated goal is to drive the web forward, whether this means building a better browser or developing better web technologies.
One thing that the modern web is enabling is gaming in the browser. With HTML5, ... |
3 October 2011
05:44 GMT |
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Here's another Google Labs casualty that ended up a success story, or, at least, ended up surviving, Google Body, or Body Browser, an impressive WebGL demo that provides a model of the human body, complete with internal organs, bones and so on, in the browser.
Google has announced that, while it won't be... |
23 September 2011
09:00 GMT |
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Google will disable cross-domain WebGL resources in the next version of its Chrome browser because of security issues with the feature.Back in May, a consultancy company called Context Information Security has identified several vulnerabilities in the WebGL technology.One of the issues was the cross-domain theft of i... |
7 July 2011
13:55 GMT |
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A few weeks back, there was a lot of fuss over cross-domain images used in WebGL. Until then, the WebGL implementations in all browsers, Firefox and Chrome, enabled WebGL apps to load external images to be displayed.
The images could only be displayed and not decoded by WebGL apps, but this restriction could be ea... |
7 July 2011
09:25 GMT |
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WebGL may still be in the early stages, but there are already plans and initial work on the next stage WebCL project. While WebGL leverages GPU power for 3D graphics in the browser, WebCL is an attempt to make it possible for web pages and apps to access the GPU via the OpenCL standard, for general purpose computing.... |
5 July 2011
07:04 GMT |
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Last week, Microsoft announced its intentions of not supporting WebGL for the foreseeable future in Internet Explorer. It backed its decision up with a number of security concerns which it said were an indication of the inherent flaws or weaknesses in WebGL itself. Other browser makers, that support WebGL - which mea... |
22 June 2011
10:31 GMT |
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Yersterday, Microsoft came out and announced that it will not be supporting WebGL, the nascent web 3D graphics standard, citing security concerns. Microsoft believes that the new standard is too risky to implement.This is partly because of the way it's built and partly because it exposes low level software, name... |
18 June 2011
06:02 GMT |
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Microsoft engineers cosider the new WebGL technology harmful to security because it exposes low-level resources to the Internet in a way that might lead to critical vulnerabilities in the future.Microsoft takes issue with the fact that the security of the entire WebGL specification, which is designed to give web appl... |
17 June 2011
08:51 GMT |
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WebGL is facing a tough future, at least the foreseeable one, now that Microsoft has officially come out and said that it won't be supporting WebGL in Internet Explorer, citing security concerns as the main reason behind this. Microsoft exemplified this through a number of third-party reports that showed flaws a... |
17 June 2011
05:41 GMT |
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Mozilla has decided to disable the ability to use cross-domain textures in WebGL in the next iteration of Firefox because of concerns expressed by security researchers.Back in May, researchers from Context Information Security disclosed several security issues they've uncovered in the WebGL technology.One of the... |
9 June 2011
12:27 GMT |
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The music video, interactive experience and tech demo all rolled into one that Google previewed at its I/O developer conference is now available for all to experience. Just type "ro.me" into your browser and, providing you're running a recent version of Google Chrome, you'll be able to emerge yourself in ... |
14 May 2011
06:55 GMT |
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Google touted its Chrome Web Store during the Google I/O keynote and launched it internationally. To showcase the power of the web store and of Chrome itself, Google also invited Rovio, the company behind the hugely popular Angry Birds, to debut the web version of the game.Shortly after the keynote, Angry Birds becam... |
12 May 2011
08:40 GMT |
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The US Computer Emergency Response Team (US-CERT) has issued a warning advising companies and users to disable WebGL in their browsers because of recently disclosed security issues.An information security consultancy firm called Context has recently published a white paper about the security risks of WebGL, a relativ... |
11 May 2011
13:23 GMT |
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WebGL, a new web standard for browsers focused on enabling 3D graphics without requiring a plug-in contains a number of security issues, according to independent information security consultancy firm Context. The security outfit cites security problems within the specification and implementations of the web standard... |
11 May 2011
10:36 GMT |
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WebGL has a lot of potential and, despite the fact that several modern browsers support the new web standard, the technology hasn't been employed too often in the wild. Google has been a big promoter of the web 3D graphics technology and it's doing it again with an interesting new project dubbed the WebGL G... |
6 May 2011
05:10 GMT |
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Interestingly enough, days after Google complained about the state of old graphics card drivers and how its affecting the hardware acceleration features in Chrome, Mozilla is now doing the same, highlighting the fact that many drivers are blacklisted due to instability."Firefox 4 brings many new features in the Graph... |
7 March 2011
09:52 GMT |
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The web is finally ready for 3D graphics, at least that's what the release of WebGL 1.0 would indicate. The 3D graphics for the web standard is now complete and can be used as a base for both applications and browser implementations.Of course, browser makers didn't wait until now to start deploying WebGL, i... |
4 March 2011
11:47 GMT |
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Google has started courting game developers in the past few months, boasting the capabilities of HTML5, WebGL as well as its Android platform. The company believes it has a lot to offer to game developers, from technology to revenue sources, so it launched the Game Developers Central website to showcase what Google c... |
3 March 2011
08:40 GMT |
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Web-based games have been around for years, yet it seems that only now they are becoming global phenomenon. So far though, the only real option for game creators has been Flash, with all of the advantages and disadvantages of the platform. HTML5 and other web technologies are now being positioned as valid alternative... |
9 February 2011
15:22 GMT |
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WebGL has went from an experimental project to a technology almost ready for production use in just a little over a year and a half. About a year ago to date, the WebGL standard got an official draft spec. The spec is now almost finalized and Google has enabled support for the technology by default in the new Google ... |
17 December 2010
07:04 GMT |
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Google has just released the first Chrome 9 Beta. The beta adds quite a few new features, including a sandboxed Flash Player, the first taste of Chrome Instant and better support for the WebGL 3D graphics technology, which is now enabled by default. The stable version of Google Chrome is expected to land mid-January ... |
16 December 2010
11:53 GMT |
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Mozilla recently unveiled its Game On initiative. The group will focus on bringing games to the browser by leveraging standard web technologies such as JavaScript, the proposed HTML5 and, of course, WebGL. While the project is still very much in the early stages, there has already been some progress and contributors ... |
13 October 2010
07:18 GMT |
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Google Chrome is already one of the fastest browsers around. But it can be significantly faster yet, with a little help from the GPU. Hardware acceleration of 2D graphics is now available in the latest Chromium builds and the Canary release, though not enabled by default. With hardware-accelerated graphics, page rend... |
15 September 2010
05:36 GMT |
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