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I see this: O3D is an open-source web API for creating rich, interactive 3D applications in the browser. And think, "Oh cool! It must be some funky 3D javascr
by ajkirwin 17y ago
I see this:
O3D is an open-source web API for creating rich, interactive 3D applications in the browser.
And think, "Oh cool! It must be some funky 3D javascript library or something. This is pretty neat."
Then I scroll down and.. oh. Yet ANOTHER plugin. How is this different from say.. flash or silverlight or..
- jcl 17y agoSilverlight and Flash do not yet support 3D accelerated graphics. A better comparison would be Unity... but Unity is not free to develop for. (And, unlike O3D, none of these other plugins are open-source.)
- aaronblohowiak 17y agoI am currently working professionally with Unity3d. Unity has taken care of a lot of the annoying legwork wrt animations, asset workflow, physics, state synchronization, c# (mono) extensibility, and more. Unfortunately, the primary language is a custom variant of ECMAScript. Another contender in this space is Torque3d, which offers the ability for you to have your own plugin and native code run on people's machines, but the licensing is not as straightforward as with Unity.
- wmf 17y agoToday it's a plugin. Tomorrow it's probably built in to Chrome, Safari, and Firefox.
- omouse 17y agoAAHAHAHAHAAHAH That's what they said about VRML!
- PieSquared 17y agoOn the other hand, I see the title, and think: "Oh dear, another funky 3d javascript library which is completely impractical and useless for any real application..." Then I look at the article and see: O3D is an open-source web API for creating rich, interactive 3D applications in the browser. Perfect! Someone big finally taking initiative and creating a plugin which might actually eventually have a large userbase.