At Google’s Chrome event last week, the company showed some new browser features that were quickly overshadowed by the Chrome Web Store and Chrome OS. Now, you can check out those features yourself by ...

WebGL (Web Graphics Library) is a JavaScript API that enables hardware-accelerated 2D and 3D graphics directly in the browser via the HTML canvas. It powers tools like Google Maps, enables web-based ...

Don't believe WebGL is real? Here's how to try the 3D browser technology yourself. It works, but plenty of development is needed for this graphics foundation to mature. Stephen Shankland worked at ...

WebGL isn't just for bouncy-marble demos anymore. Google Maps, a major site, now uses the 3D graphics technology after years of development. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...

Through this tutorial, we’re going to learn the basics of collisions, physics & bounding boxes by playing with the WebGL Babylon.js engine and a physics engine companion named oimo.js. Here’s the demo ...

If you ever needed proof that web browsers are first-class citizens, capable of rendering 3D games with as much gusto as consoles or running web apps that are as feature-rich as their installed ...

Katalabs, a small company that emerged from a Stanford research community, has released an open source framework for building browser-based virtual worlds. The software, called KataSpace, uses ...

We're not sure anyone out there needs any more proof that the Nokia N900 is powerhouse, but just in case you still had doubts, check this video of a WebGL-enabled Firefox build smoothly rendering some ...

If you'd like to see what the next generation of 3-D web graphics might look like, Mozilla has a few examples ready for you to feast your eyes on. Mozilla's WebGL project gives web developers a way to ...