Did anyone mention o3d yet? => http://code.google.com/apis/o3d/
On Monday 15 June 2009 06:21:52 Toni Alatalo wrote: > Ryan McDougall kirjoitti: > >> Is it possible to view Realxtend through a normal webpage without > >> downloading and installing anything? > > > > This is not possible for any 3D application, as web browsers do not > > yet come with 3D rendering capabilities. However this is changing, as > > That said, people have been able to get that experience: run a hardware > accelerated 3d scene in / from a web browser 'without installing', for > several years now using Java. As Flash for the past years (idiotically?) > missed 3d support, that has left the otherwise quite dead Java applet > and later Web Start technologies with exactly this niche: enable game > etc. makers use opengl in 3d things that run for the user without > installing. *Supposing* the user had Java itself installed, like of > course the Flash plugin is also required to run (2d) Flash games and > apps. That has not been self evident with e.g. Vista shipping without > Flash (and I suppose Java too) preinstalled. > > For example the free-http://code.google.com/apis/o3d/to-play RuneScape MMO is a 3d Java applet, just > tested it now and it is running fine on my old mac that's sitting next > to this compu here :) > > There is a quite nice open source 3d engine, quite similar to Ogre which > Rex uses, written in Java: http://www.jmonkeyengine.com/ . I think it > would be quite straightforward to write a basic Rex&/Opensim compatible > viewer using that, in case someone is interested. I've been considering > JMe as an option for making 3d games for the web that should be easy to > players to start. Instead of the old embedded-within-browser applet > technology, Java things nowadays usually use Java Web Start which is > just a way to launch a normal application from the browser - so when the > app is running the browser is not in-between, it can do normal full > screen etc. My son plays a networked football game called power football > quite often, it's also a jws opengl thing, and running it has worked > well on several computers. > > Microsoft Silverlight and I guess those Windows Presentation Framework > (WPF) things that are used in the MS tech based browser viewer Xenki are > a new competitor to both Java and Flash (and Adobe AIR etc) there, > interesting to see how that will go. > > > both Firefox and Chrome will at some point include JavaScript 3D > > rendering APIs: > > Yah this will be very interesting, IIRC Adam was already testing to make > some O3D ClientView to OpenSim. > > > install within the browser. I have personally found in-browser 3D > > viewers to be no more simple to install than a separate program. > > It'd be nice for realXtend to do this, but I don't think it's > > currently a very high priority. That said, it is open source, so there > > Yah. Some apps work so that they are both a standalone app *and* a > browser plugin at the same time, I mean the same installer installs them > so that they can run as both. Quicktime on Windows and Adobe PDF reading > etc. come to mind as examples. > > ~Toni > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ http://groups.google.com/group/realxtend http://www.realxtend.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
