Google has moved to a beta phase with its WebGL 3D graphics API for JavaScript, the company said on Thursday. Featured in the Google Chrome beta channel, WebGL is based on OpenGL ES 2.0 API for ...

The WebGL prototypes have shown that with GPU functions exposed through the WebGL API, 3D applications can run on limited devices even with the overheads of JavaScript and the browser environment.

Enabling the 3D capabilities on the desktop would go a long way towards generating interest in making Apple's currently-proprietary CSS extensions into a de facto, or even official, web standard.

WebGPU is a new API written in JavaScript that aims to provide "modern 3D graphics and computation capabilities" to web browsers.

Project Azure, as it is known, focuses on the creation of a new 2D graphics API for Firefox that's "significantly closer to Direct2D" as well as new 3D backends for drawing content in an ...

Amazon also supports OTOY’s ORBX.js on these GPU instances. This is a downloadable HD codec written in JavaScript and WebGL that allows you to stream 3D-intensive applications right from the ...