AMD Unlocks 3D Internet Potential with OpenGL ES 2.0 Driver

[AMDave]

AMD Unlocks 3D Internet Potential with OpenGL ES 2.0 Driver
Posted: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 13:01:00 EDT

At SIGGRAPH 2010, AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced availability of the first software driver for desktop computing environments to support the WebGL industry standard, which is designed to bring plugin-free 3D graphics to the Internet. The AMD OpenGL® ES 2.0 driver is intended to help developers easily create exciting 3D content that can be rendered more quickly for consumers using open-source web browsers, thereby helping create an application-like browser experience.

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[NeoGen]

Sounds really good... I hope to see some sites implement it in the future.

I wonder if this will make any sort of competition with Adobe Flash, or similar web technologies.