Copperlicht 1.3.1 released
CopperLicht is a JavaScript 3D engine for creating games and 3d applications in the webbrowser. It uses the WebGL canvas supported by modern browsers and is able to render hardware accelerated 3d graphics without any plugins. This update sees a few bug fixes as well as having its own name space defined in JS to avoid conflicts with other libraries, such as jQuery.
New San Francisco Bay Area WebGL meetup group
Tony Parisi is co-organizing a San Francisco Bay Area WebGL meetup. Details and upcoming schedules can be found on the meetup page.
General 3D Announces World’s First Web-Based HTML5/WebGL Stereoscopic 3D System
General 3D announced the first web-based 3D stereoscopic system to stream 3D stereoscopic videos using only a browser. This new system uses the HTML5 and WebGL standards being built into Mozilla FireFox, Google Chrome and Apple Safari. Currently the site appears to work only with Firefox 4 beta.
WebGL: Bringing 3D to the Web slides from GPU Technology Conference 2010
NVIDIA has posted the complete slide set on 'WebGL: Bringing 3D to the Web' presented by Vladimir Vukicevic from Mozilla online. The slides include the live voice-over by Vladimir from the actual presentation.
Blender to WebGL exporter
Blender users rejoice. There is now an exporter for Blender so you can export your objects into WebGL javascript.
WebGL news from around the net
The biggest news from around the net is that the Mozilla and Chrome teams have turned WebGL on by default in their latest beta builds. These stories and many more are avilable regularly from Learning WebGL.
Mozilla announces Labs: Gaming - Gaming with Open Web Standards like WebGL
Mozilla announced their new Labs : Gaming. An initiative inviting the gaming community to come out to play and get creative, with cool technologies in open web standards. If any of Open Video, audio, WebGL, touch events, device orientation, geo location or fast Javascript engines do it for you, then Labs : Gaming is the place for you. Getting this all going is Game on 2010, Mozilla's first ever gaming competition open to all developers interested in using Open Web technologies.
COPPERCUBE 2 with WebGL publishing announced
COPPERCUBE 2 arrived on the scene this week boasting 'No programming necessary' to create interactive 3D applications and publish to WebGL on Mac or Windows. Simply import your 3D models or scene, setup the cameras, controllers etc and click Publish. You can try out the free 14 day trial as we did. Within a few seconds we exported a sample scene that worked great in Flash, but unfortunately has a little way to go still in WebGL.
WebGL – GLGE adds LOD Support
You can now specify the mesh and material to use for a given pixel size.
Bringing Virtual Worlds to Your Web Browser
Connect@NMC Online Seminar featuring Henrik Bennetsen of Katalabs, a pioneer in the use of open source software and HTML5 to deliver fast, seamless virtual world experiences inside modern web browsers. HTML5 and WebGL are two emerging standards bringing change to the web. Join Henrik on Tuesday, September 14, 2010 at 12:00 pm Pacific Time to learn more about using emerging standards to create 3D virtual worlds within the browser. Connect@NMC sessions are free and open to the public, and take place in the NMC Adobe Connect Seminar room.