WebGL long turned off by apple will now be available under iOS8 making it 
potentially available for apple mobile devices too. 

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> On 12 Aug 2014, at 05:09, Butch Arnold <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
> +1 for WebGL from me!
> 
>> On 8/11/2014 9:07 PM, Mister Blue wrote:
>> There is a lot of WebGL stuff happening out there. I thought I'd mash some 
>> existing code together and create a simple viewer to generate some test 
>> numbers and proof points, but it seems that every time I click on another 
>> link I find another amazing WebGL project.
>> 
>> Some samples:
>> Blend4Web (http://www.blend4web.com/en/). A small company that makes a 
>> Blender plugin and a browser view. You build your world in Blender and can 
>> output html or js and then walk around in your world in the browser viewer. 
>> The viewer itself is GPL.
>> Cesium (http://cesiumjs.org/) Cesium is a JavaScript library for creating 3D 
>> globes and 2D maps in a web browser without a plugin. It uses WebGL for 
>> hardware-accelerated graphics, and is cross-platform, cross-browser, and 
>> tuned for dynamic-data visualization. Cesium is open source under the Apache 
>> 2.0 license. If you go to the site above, you orbit with the ISS.
>> 
>> Also fun talks at Siggraph next month:
>> Progressive Streaming of Compressed 3D Graphics in a Web Browser
>> A solution for fast progressive streaming and visualization of compressed 3D 
>> graphics on the web. The approach relies on a dedicated 
>> progressive-compression algorithm and a plugin-free solution for streaming, 
>> decoding, and visualization by the web browser, which relies on an optimized 
>> parallel JavaScript/WebGL implementation. (Guillaume Lavoué,Université de 
>> Lyon, LIRIS CNRS)
>> Earth in Google Maps: Rendering Trillions of Triangles in JavaScript
>> This talk gives an overview of the rendering technology used to render 
>> Google Earth’s massive dataset in a web browser using JavaScript and WebGL. 
>> (Janne Kontkanen, Evan Parker; Google Inc.)
>> 
>> The WebGL area has matured a lot since I last looked at it a year or two ago.
>> 
>> Just had to share.
>> 
>> 
>>> On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 3:32 PM, M.E. Verhagen <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> There are a lot of double buttons and menu options in the current viewers.
>>>  
>>> For instance the top bar has got the parcel name and so does the second 
>>> bar. (inlcusive all the restrictions buttons ... double ...)
>>> 
>>> The bottom bar starts with the Nearby chat button ... wich does exactly the 
>>> same as the balloon button. 
>>> 
>>> Wow that certainly adds to the complexity.
>>> 
>>> It would be better to get complete get rid of the ui, by making a second 
>>> window with just all the buttons seperate from viewer window. Just the 
>>> black top bar with the region and current opensim name would remain. 
>>> 
>>> Maybe even an UI app for on the ipad or android can be made. (wich would 
>>> then direct communicate with the viewer window) 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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