[Bf-committers] Khronos + Mozilla: 3D on the web

[Toni Alatalo]

Ton Roosendaal kirjoitti:
> Quite a nice initiative right? So, we should ensure Blender gets  
> involved. :)
>   

It is interesting indeed - it is finally about time for browsers to get 
access to hardware accelerated 3d (so far people have resorted to even 
writing 3d engines that run on cpu in flash, and even with javascript 
without flash to draw some polygons :) .. only exception being java apps 
that have been able to use opengl for a long time, so there are 
succesfull mmorpgs etc written in it)

Do you something specific in mind what this might mean for Blender? I 
don't suppose you're thinking of targetting a Blender 3 rewrite in 2011 
in javascript so that the whole app would run in a web browser :p

> Who here on the list would be interested to represent Blender for this  
> initiative? I guess it's mostly mailing lists, tele-conferences, but  
> also face-to-face meetings.
>   

I'm working pretty much full time with '3d web' stuff now but from a bit 
different angle, working with http://www.realxtend.org/ (where our 
company is now joining as a partner too) in collaboration with 
http://www.opensimulator.org/ .. that's why was also interested in that 
Khronos + Mozilla / opengl-es + javascript in browser initiative, as we 
are now writing a 'virtual worlds browser' (/'generic game client'?), 
using ogre and core in c++, and I'm responsible for the client side 
scripting work (similar to how javascript is in browsers, and how 
perhaps that new 3d stuff will be exposed there too, so will be 
following that).

Am nowhere near SF, and like said have to look at the devs from that bit 
different angle too, so perhaps there is someone else who can represent 
BF better. I'll be thinking of Blender too of course, and hope we'll get 
to use it together nicely with the upcoming realxtend toolset as well.

> -Ton-
>   

~Toni