• April 24

Introducing Google’s O3D API – Browser Based 3D API

Kindly hold your VRML jokes until the end…

O3D is an open-source web API for creating rich, interactive 3D applications in the browser. This API is shared at an early stage as part of a conversation with the broader developer community about establishing an open web standard for 3D graphics.

O3D API – Google Code.




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  1. Rune April 25th

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    Google’s new API is interesting, but 3D content has been accessible from inside the web browser for years. For example, Cartoon Networks even made their fullblown MMO FusionFall as a 3D in-browser game with Unity. Also smaller indie game developers use Unity; for example games like Off-Road Velociraptor Safari and RC Laser Warrior.

    Curiously, Google’s Beach Demo looks somewhat similar to Unity’s older Tropical Paradise Demo:
    http://unity3d.com/gallery/live-demos/tropical-paradise

    But it will be interesting to see where things will be going with an open source project like this! Once it has matured a bit more, it will certainly have potential.


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