[_] OT: 3D browser games (Was: Microsoft introduces Silverlight)
Steve Roome
steve at pepcross.com
Wed May 2 17:54:56 BST 2007
On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 05:39:52PM +0100, Richard Davey wrote:
> I disagree, the application of 3D technology (read: 3D GPUs) does not
> have to equate to games with a 3D perspective. The two things are not
> joined at the hip and haven't been since the mid 90s. As you know, GPUs
> today are about raw grunt horse power, about shifting pixels like
> they're going out of fashion, hell even to the point of multi-GPU cards
> processing physics calculations on one and vertices on the other - and
> *nothing* truly links that raw power into the web yet, in any real form
> at all.
I don't have a ten litre engine in my car, and I don't need it either.
Why do we need 3D enabled web apps, we still read 2D books and
newspapers, watch 2D television and as for 3D films.. Well. there you
they worked well.
Steve