WebGL2 Is On Its Way and it looks amazing

[qwertywarrior]

http://www.pcper.com/news/General-Tech/WebGL2-Its-Way

 

 

snippets from  pcper
 

 

The Khronos Group created WebGL to bring a GPU-accelerated platform to web browsers. With a few minor differences, it is basically JavaScript bindings for OpenGL ES 2.0.

 

The next step is WebGL2. OpenGL ES 3.0 adds a bunch of new features that are sorely needed for modern games and applications.

 

The news today is that Mozilla Nightly now ships with WebGL2 enabled by default. It was previously hidden, disabled by default, behind an option in the browser. This doesn't seem like a big deal, but one of the largest hurdles to WebGL2 is how the browsers actually implement it.

 

Unfortunately, OpenGL compute shaders are not supported in WebGL2. That said, the biggest hurdle is, again, to get WebGL2 working at all. From my talks with browser vendors over the last year or so, it sounds like features (including compute shaders) should start flying in easily once this hurdle is cleared. From there, GPGPU in a website should be much more straightforward.

 

games on browsers wont look like it was made in the 90's anymore

[Guest]

Open Source Shall Triumph!

[crystal6tak]

Perhaps off topic but, this reminded me of this:

https://lightsaber.withgoogle.com/

A webgl game Google made recently. I'd say we gone a long way from laggy af flash games 

[Doobeedoo]

Heh yeah games can look better now. That looks rather good tho.

[Sauron]

Nice, but I wonder who really wants to play intensive games on their browser.

[Trixanity]

I'm sitting here wondering why they are focusing on implementing OpenGL ES 3.0 with Vulkan just around the corner and supposedly being the future of open graphics APIs.

[deviant88]

Ye ye , start learning bitches, no more 2D flash games on the web make it happen.

Im waiting for vulkan id like to learn that.

[suicidalfranco]

imagine this: gaming on a chromebook?

[Guest Kloaked]

Nice, but I wonder who really wants to play intensive games on their browser.

I bet Dice would love for battlefield to launch in the browser since they like putting the server browser in it to begin with.

[Sauron]

I bet Dice would love for battlefield to launch in the browser since they like putting the server browser in it to begin with.

 

but that's not going to happen with this anyway