{"id":7480,"date":"2011-12-22T16:07:30","date_gmt":"2011-12-22T23:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mozillalabs.com\/?p=7480"},"modified":"2011-12-22T16:07:30","modified_gmt":"2011-12-22T23:07:30","slug":"webgl-camp-4-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/2011\/12\/webgl-camp-4-revisited\/","title":{"rendered":"WebGL Camp 4 Revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s been over a week since WebGL Camp 4<\/a> took place at our Mountain View offices, in the quintessentially Mozillian common space called Ten Forward. The day-long event, organized by the Katalabs’ Henrik Bennetsen, brought together more than 70 technologists and innovators, while others participated via the live #airmozilla<\/a> stream, which also included presentations via Skype from Paul Lewis in the UK, on a3<\/a>, a simple 3D engine; and Bartek Drozdz, who lives and works in Los Angeles, on J3d<\/a> .<\/p>\n

Presenters included academics doing surgical simulation research, entrepreneurs building custom robot toys using WebGL<\/a>, technologists working on DoD contracts for complex simulation environments, new 3D libraries and engines, a couple of young developers who build a Kinect\/Audio\/WebGL mashup using Cubic.VR, and WebGL offerings and enhancements from the Google, Autodesk and others.<\/p>\n

Many of the presentation slides have already been posted to the agenda<\/a>: these include Brandon Jones, on optimizing texture performance<\/a>; Lockheed Martin’s David Smith, on the Department of Defense’s virtual world framework<\/a>; and Mozilla intern Douglas Sherk on Context Loss: The Forgotten Scripts<\/a>. Nicolas Garcia Belmonte posted a thoughtful recap<\/a> that covered “stuff I learnt about state-of-the-art WebGL, and the incredible community that we have here in the Bay Area around this technology.” Videos from the event will be posted in early 2012 for archival viewing.<\/p>\n

WebGL<\/a> was practically invented at Mozilla and the creative energy and friendly, collaborative spirit of the WebGL community felt right at home with the quirky and inventive Mozillian ethos.<\/p>\n

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As Henrik points out in a video soundbyte, making amazing 3D graphics as easy to create as “view source” has got to be good for humanity, right?<\/p>\n

After seeing the WebGL nyan cat meme<\/a> in action, we have to agree.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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