Today the web is lacking non-proprietary mechanisms to model dynamic 3D internet, render them in standard browsers and interact with the content. At Intel’s Research and Innovation Forum 2011 in Taipei we checked out a demo of extensions added to Firefox and Chrome. What the extension itself does is it allows the browser to use all the available cores to render the scene in the browser. If you ask me anything that allows you to use more cores is something we should all want.
The extensions allowed the browser to arbitrarily modify 3D scenes described by the XML3D HTML extensions. This is all done with out the need to re-transmit the scene itself. With this technology users can immerse themselves in a fully interactive 3D web on any browser platform.
Sound great? The question is unless Firefox or Chrome decide to include it in the tool set then developers are unlikely to use it. Great idea we’ll have to wait an see if any of the browsers decide to support it.
