WebGL Articles
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Converting a WebGL application to WebVR
Research engineer Manish Goregaokar, who works on Servo and Rust, shares what he's learned and some of the code he wrote, while porting a WebGL application to WebVR.
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Optimizing Performance of A-Frame Scenes for Mobile Devices
A-Frame makes building 3D and VR web applications easy, so developers of all skill levels can create rich and interactive virtual worlds. For an Oregon State University student project focused on WebVR, our team investigated performance and optimizations for A-Frame on Android smartphones. We developed a means of benchmarking the level of 3D complexity a mobile phone is capable of, and determining which performance metrics are required for such a benchmark.
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Web Games Platform: Newest Developments
In July of 2015 we announced our Games Technology Roadmap, and we've been working steadily on addressing those pain points as shared by developers. Here's an overview of the newest platform developments and the progress we've made.
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WebGL 2 lands in Firefox
With the release of Firefox 51, WebGL 2 support has landed! WebGL is a standard API to render 3D graphics in the Web. WebGL 2 is based on the OpenGL ES 3.0 specification, and introduces new features – many of them aimed at increasing performance and visual fidelity.
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Basics of building 3D games on the Web
You might think that 3D games are harder to develop than 2D because of the extra dimension you have to take into account, but it’s easier than you think. We’ve recently updated the Games section on MDN with a collection of tutorials covering 3D development, with a focus on frameworks that offer shortcuts for developers […]
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Exporting An Indie Unity Game to WebVR
WebVR holds the key to the future of VR content access – instant gratification without any downloads or installs. Or, at least we think so! We’re building a multi-platform digital game subscription service called Jump that delivers native web games to desktop, mobile, console, and VR devices, and we’ve bet our entire business on native web […]
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WebGL Off the Main Thread
We’re happy to announce WebGL in Web Workers in Firefox 44+! Using the new OffscreenCanvas API you can now create a WebGL context off of the main thread. To follow along, you’ll need a copy of Firefox 44 or newer (currently Firefox Developer Edition or Firefox Nightly). You’ll have to enable this API by navigating […]
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Unity games in WebGL: Owlchemy Labs’ conversion of Aaaaa! to asm.js
You may have seen the big news today, but for those who’ve been living in an Internet-less cave, starting today through October 28 you can check out the brand spankin’ new Humble Mozilla Bundle. The crew here at Owlchemy Labs were given the unique opportunity to work closely with Unity, maker of the leading cross-platform […]
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Blend4Web: the Open Source Solution for Online 3D
Half year ago Blend4Web was first released publicly. In this article I’ll show what Blend4Web is, how it is evolved and and how it can be used for web development. What Is Blend4Web? In short, Blend4Web is an open source framework for creating 3D web applications. It uses Blender – the popular open source 3D […]
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Inside the Party Bus: Building a Web App with Multiple Live Video Streams + Interactive Graphics
Gearcloud Labs is exploring the use of open technologies to build new kinds of shared video experiences. Party Bus is a demo app that mixes multiple live video streams together with interactive graphics and synchronized audio. We built it using a combination of node.js, WebSockets, WebRTC, WebGL, and Web Audio. This article shares a few […]
