WebGL is a cross-platform, royalty-free web standard for a low-level 3D graphics API based on OpenGL ES 2.0. This technology now allows Google Maps to show views in 3D rather than the traditional ...

WebGL isn't just for bouncy-marble demos anymore. Google Maps, a major site, now uses the 3D graphics technology after years of development. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...

Nokia Maps WebGL beta has recently seen a quiet and fun little update: a 3D stereoscopic toggle that gives you a 3D experience if you have the proper glasses to see it. Nokia ...

Google Maps for Android has offered a vector 3D option for some time, presenting a fully adjustable, 360 degree view of the world. Now Google has announced that it’s bringing this to the browser ...

Through the power of WebGL, those of you using Firefox beta, Chrome, Safari (if you enable it), and starting today Opera 12 Alpha, can all see the buildings, the lovely, lovely buildings.

Google Maps brought us a few 3D buildings in its WebGL version last week (including nice touches like shadows), and now Ovi Maps 3D is showing us a WebGL map that feels a lot more like Google Earth.

Google has committed itself to implementing WebGL, but will also continue developing its own O3D system. Google's view is that JavaScript is still too slow to handle raw OpenGL programming.

Don't believe WebGL is real? Here's how to try the 3D browser technology yourself. ... 3D models of products you're thinking of buying online, and mapping and virtual-world applications.

The latest Firefox nightly builds now include Mozilla's implementation of WebGL, an emerging standard that aims to bring 3D graphics to the Web. Although the standard is still at a relatively ...

Overseen by collaborative industry outfit, Khronos Group, WebGL enables hardware-accelerated 3D graphics in HTML5 web browsers without the need for plug-ins, and is supported by companies such as ...