WebGL Articles
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Lessons learnt building ViziCities
Just over 2 weeks ago Peter Smart and Robin Hawkes released the first version of ViziCities to the world. It’s free to use and open-sourced under an MIT license. In this post I will talk to you about the lessons learnt during the development of ViziCities. From application architecture to fine-detailed WebGL rendering improvements, we […]
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Mozilla Hacks Weekly, August 18th 2011
It’s Thursday, folks, and you know what that means, right? It’s time for Mozilla Hacks Weekly, with recommended reading from the Mozilla Developer Engagement Team!
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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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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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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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Announcing the winners of the June 2013 Dev Derby!
This June, some of the most creative web developers out there pushed the limits of WebGL in our June Dev Derby contest. After sorting through the entries, our expert judges–James Padolsey and Maire Reavy–decided on three winners and three runners-up. Not a contestant? There are other reasons to be excited. Most importantly, all of these […]
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NORAD Tracks Santa
This year, Open Web standards like WebGL, Web Workers, Typed Arrays, Fullscreen, and more will have a prominent role in NORAD’s annual mission to track Santa Claus as he makes his journey around the world. That’s because Analytical Graphics, Inc. used Cesium as the basis for the 3D Track Santa application. Cesium is an open […]
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Hacks Weekly – Open SWF Runtime, WebRTC photobooth, Wikimedia HTML5 Media Player + more
Some good reading about an Open SWF Runtime Project, WebRTC photobooth, Wikimedia HTML5 Media Player with WebM Support, WebGL/GLSL plasma simulation running on the GPU and more in store for you! Here are this week’s link tips from Mozilla’s Developer Engagement team.
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Dev Resources to Hack the Future Web – Mozilla Ignite
Mozilla has been rolling out two new resources for developers to hack on the network of the future: Learning Labs to get hackers started using current web technologies such as WebGL or WebRTC on networks unconstrained by bandwidth, latency, or compute capacity. Developer Docs so you can quickly start hacking on the next generation of […]
