Now that most home computers have are powerful enough, I definitely think that 3D in the web browser will get more popular, and that a standard will emerge. Dir

Now that most home computers have are powerful enough, I definitely think that 3D in the web browser will get more popular, and that a standard will emerge. Director/Shockwave has been around for a while, and naturally has been adopted by more users. Unity is a lot more powerful, and includes a physics engine and shader support. I don't know how much Shockwave supports those things, if it does at all, but I'd imagine Unity is a lot more focused on advanced features. It's not the Source engine, but it's advanced enough to build stand alone and console games, with the web as one option for deployment. I think it boils down to how much users really want realistic physics and other high-end game features in a web game, and that's hard for me to say. There's also Google's O3D, which is also very powerful. Right now, though, it seems to be just an experimental Google Labs project, and not a real product.