Chrome To Get Hardware Accelerated 3D Graphics

Regeneration · Posted by Regeneration on July 24th, 2009, 07:32 AM

Google has begun building its O3D plug-in for hardware-accelerated 3D graphics into its Chrome browser. Writing on his blog, a Chromium programmer, Greg Spencer, said that the O3D team is working on getting O3D integrated into the Chromium build.

He said that the team was close to being able to complete our first step towards integration. Chromium is the open-source project that underlies Chrome itself and Spencer said that he will be making the Windows build of Chromium dependent upon building O3D as part of the build process.

This will open the way for high-powered Web-based games that can run 3D graphics. Google has said that it wants to speed the transformation of the Web from a static medium into a place where it is easy to run software.

It is also working on Google Native Client, which is designed to let Web applications take advantage of user's own computer's processors.

However developing the code is only stage one. Google knows that it needs to get developers and games makers to use it. This is not as easy as it sounds because at the moment only Google has said that it is developing browsers that use a computer's hardware.

Read the entire article at TG Daily.

**Posted by mkey on July 29th, 2009, 11:45 AM**

oh boy, just what i have been waiting for all my life.
what better way to occupy the idle hours of my expensive, power-sucking gpu than with web-browsing?! i can hardly wait to surf the web in 3d!

this way i can triple my electricty use 24-7! what will they think of next? maybe a way i can turn my old crt into a sun-lamp or simply warm my home with the recycled heat from my pc power supply while i browse the web in fantastic 3D!!...