On Tuesday, 21 July 2009 we wrote…
Tuesday, 21 July 2009
3D Comes To The Web Again
Back in the day (OK, the 90s) there was a thing called VMRL. Great things were predicted for 3D content on the web. Meetings were held at SIGGRAPH. Consortiums were formed. Consumers said "Meh!".
Now 3D in a browser is back... and twice! First, the latest WebKit supports CSS 3D transforms. Download the latest WebKit here and see the very cool demos of CSS 3D here. Second (though released earlier), Google has released O3D - a plugin which provides a 3D API to JavaScript - demos here.
Of the two, CSS 3D is the perhaps the…
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