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Chrome to Have 3D Apps This Summer
Posted on 31. Mar, 2010 by Daniel Cawrey. 
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In an interview conducted with India’s Economic Times Ian Fette, a product manager for Google’s Chrome browser says that we should be expecting three dimensional applications to be available sometime this summer. When asked what new applications one could expect for Chrome this year, Fette’s response was candid.
“This summer, we will launch 3D apps via Chrome. Thus users will not have to download a 3D platform to play or view 3D games. Just visiting a website via Chrome will do the job”, says Fette.
A lot of talk has gone on about making Chrome the defacto application that allows everything to sun inside the browser. This is in tandem with the effort has been put into Native Client, which allows further compatibility for resource intensive processes to run inside Chrome browser. Now that Flash will get deeper integration, it will be interesting to see how this revelation develops.
There has been talk of some companies providing cloud services for gaming that can be done inside the browser. On example of this is OnLive, which incidentally is panning on launch in June and allows for gaming through a browser plugin. The theory for this sounds great, but one has to wonder how much processing can be pushed through a network that can be variable like the internet is (the requirements say you need 1.5Mbps). Plus, the server architecture sounds pricey from something like this to run smoothly, although OnLive could start out small and scale up as needed.
Regardless, this is a promising development. 3D worlds like Second Life could become easier to use by just navigating to a URL in a browser. There are implications to this that cannot even be fathomed at this time. It certainly would give Chrome a boost in popularity if for a time it is the only browser capable of this type of functionality.
