Khronos Releases WebGL 1.0 Specification to Bring Accelerated 3D Graphics to the Web without Plugins
The Khronos™ Group today released the final WebGL™ 1.0 specification to enable hardware-accelerated 3D graphics in HTML5 Web browsers without the need for plug-ins. WebGL defines a JavaScript binding to OpenGL® ES 2.0 to allow rich 3D graphics within a browser on any platform supporting the industry-standard OpenGL or OpenGL ES graphics APIs. WebGL has the support of major silicon and browser vendors including Apple, Google, Mozilla and Opera with multiple browsers already shipping with WebGL implementations including the beta releases for Mozilla Firefox 4.0, all channels of Google Chrome 9.0, an Opera preview build, and Apple Mac OS Safari nightly builds.
See Khronos and COLLADA at GDC
Please visit Khronos at booth #1444 at the Game Developer Conference (GDC), March 2-4, 2011 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco to learn more about COLLADA. Khronos is also running a series of developer university sessions on Thursday, March 3rd, in Room 301 in the South Hall:
- WebGL at 9AM
- OpenGL at 10:30AM
- Demos at 12 noon
- COLLADA at 1:30PM
- OpenCL at 3PM
- Beer and demos at 4:30PM and finally Mobile APIs at 4:50PM. More details about Khronos activities at GDC can be found on our GDC Event page.
Khronos Invitation to GDC 2011
The Khronos Group invites you to attend GDC 2011, and visit The Khronos Group booth #1444. We will have lots of great news on WebGL, COLLADA and many of our other API's, and to pick up a free laminated reference card for many of our APIs!
Khronos Invitation to GDC 2011
Neil Trevett, president of The Khronos Group invites you to attend GDC 2011, and visit The Khronos Group booth #1444.
Web3D 2011 Paris - call for papers exploring WebGL, COLLADA, X3D, VRML
The 16th edition of ACM International Web3D Conference will address a wide range of research topics related to online 3D Graphics, including WebGL and COLLADA. Submission deadline for full and short paper submissions is March 13, 2011. Web3D 2011 will be held on June 20-22, 2011 at Les Cordeliers, 15 Rue Ecole de Medecine, 75006 Paris, France.
COLLADA is now registered as a model type with IANA
The Khronos Group has registered the mimetype "model/vnd.collada+xml" with IANA for the COLLADA extension .dae. Mark Barnes, COLLADA Work Group Chair said "the important thing about having a MIME type for COLLADA is that it enables applications and operating systems to recognize ".dae" documents and provide a much richer and secure experience to users, especially for Web applications and browsers."
OpenCOLLADA releases major update
OpenCOLLADA released a major update a few days ago on the Windows side. OpenCOLLADA now supports Max/Maya 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 x86 and x64. Download is available today on the OpenCOLLADA website.
OpenCOLLADA updates for 3ds Max and Maya
OpenCOLLADA was recently updated for both 3ds Max and Maya. OpenCOLLADA is a project dedicated to join efforts using COLLADA within various DCC tools like 3ds Max, Maya, Blender and a fast SDK for reading and writing COLLADA files.
Mixamo Updates COLLADA 1.4.1 Importer for Blender
Mixamo is a free online character animation service for Blender. They have recently updated the COLLADA 1.4.1 importer for Blender 2.49b.
OurBricks Imports COLLADA Files into a Shareable Space on the Web
OurBricks is the latest project from Linden Lab alum Henrik Bennetsen, founder of the WebGL-powered KataSpace, and it's his latest effort to bring 3D immersive experiences to the web.