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It's a pretty bright future for WebGL. Lots of companies are doing 3D visualization on the web, including the one I work for. Our product includes an embedded

• Joeri 13y ago
  Interesting producr. I've been looking into BIM integration for the FM software suite I work on, and the possibility of embedding a webgl BIM viewer to match our existing SVG-based CAD viewer. It seemed like a lot of work though to get it running properly (it seemed like one of those things where you can get a demo going in a matter of hours but finishing it up takes months).
  • superqd 13y ago
    You are correct. One of our devs built a prototype using a 3rd party WebGL framework quickly (few days), but for the real deal, we started over and went straight to WebGL ourselves (so we could better optimize for large models, etc). The prototype that was built just couldn't handle models of any meaningful size, so we definitely needed to own everything about the code so we could optimize for our needs. We are in the BIM space and have one of the few web based viewers for such models. Some other products require a plugin to render 3D, but we really wanted to reduce friction to use our product, so we decided to go with WebGL. It's now supported in all 3 major browsers too.