Opera Mini 7 stretches to Android
Opera ports its WebGL hardware acceleration from Opera Mobile to the Android version of Opera Mini 7.
RIM Releases Free TunnelTilt WebGL PlayBook Game Demo in App World
RIM is exemplifying the fact that you can take WebGL browser games and turn them into native apps using WebWorks on the PlayBook with the game feeling like a native game.
Opera TV Store, now with expanded capabilities including WebGL
The HTML5-powered Opera TV Store is now on show at IP&TV World Forum in London. It's packed with new cool features such as the ability to render WebGL content. Game developers can bring their WebGL-based games to connected TVs running the Opera TV Store.
WebGL instructional videos in 14 parts—by Erik Moller from Opera
Eric Moller from Opera has posted an excellent 14 part video instructional on YouTube. Check it out!
WebGL Meetup videos now online
Did you miss the WebGL Meetup we held along side GDC last week? No worries, we recorded the entire meetup, and have posted it in four parts on YouTube (part one, two, three) and as podcasts. With Tony Parisi as moderator, the WebGL meetup covered lots of ground, including a spec update, lots of demo's and a security corner with Ken Russell from Google. The slide presentation in PDF format from the meetup is also online.
Khronos Group Prioritizes China’s Participation in Creation of International Technology Standards
The Khronos Group commenced the opening events of its most recent tour to Beijing and Shanghai. The Khronos Board of Directors, including AMD, Apple, ARM, Epic, Ericsson, Freescale, Imagination Technologies, Intel, Nokia, NVIDIA, Oracle, Qualcomm, Samsung, SONY and Texas Instruments, has made engaging the participation of Chinese industry a priority and has committed significant financial and staffing resources to Chinese activities. Khronos standards include OpenGL ES, the 3D graphics API used to power the user interface, games and applications on almost every smartphone in the world, OpenCL for heterogeneous parallel computation and WebGL for 3D graphics for HTML5.
Cell Cycle webGL design app
Cell Cycle lets you design your own closed cell object and then have printed in various nylon colours or sterling silver. This release is a major update from the old app that was written in Java.
WebGL Inspector 1.9 released
WebGL Inspector is a tool inspired by gDEBugger and PIX with the goal of making the development of advanced WebGL applications easier. What Firebug and Developer Tools are to HTML/JS, WebGL Inspector is to WebGL.
What WebGL Will Mean for the Web
A WebGL SXSW panel on Monday, March 12 @ 5:00PM-6:00PM in the Austin Convention Center, will bring together a group of practitioners who are actively involved in everything from writing the WebGL spec to shipping real products based on it. Between us we have been there since the earliest days of the spec and have delivered some of the most high profile WebGL projects seen to date. Join us as we reflect on what we have learned in the early days of working with WebGL and have a conversation about what the road ahead may look like.
Khronos invites you to WebGL, COLLADA and KITE meetups
The Khronos Group will be hosting three meet ups held during GDC in the Hilton San Francisco. Registration is now open for all three meet ups. Seating is limited, so please don't wait if your interested. The WebGL meet up is already starting to fill up. Complete details and sign up available here.