As a 3d hacker this could be really good news. Yes plugins suck. But... Widely adopted plugins do not suck. If enough people use this new plugin it could become "the way" to do 3d on the web.
He's providing both chicken and egg in the classic plugin paradox. I fear we will wait until rapture before Adobe hooks flash the GPU. I hope it works and I hope he publishes the api.
API? As far as I know the plugin is basically a port of Quake III into the browser window. I don't know what kind of API he could publish; this isn't Flash or Java.
He's providing both chicken and egg in the classic plugin paradox. I fear we will wait until rapture before Adobe hooks flash the GPU. I hope it works and I hope he publishes the api.