Unity, the popular middleware tools frequently used by game developers are not limited to creating compiled applications that run as an executable. Unity previously had a web player, which was a downloadable plugin that used ActiveX. Chrome killed support for NPAP (Netscape Plugin API), but announced it over one year ago. In April, with the…
UPDATED: 2/2/16 I have a video overview for all of this now, too. Writing code for multiple platforms can be a lot of work. It can be even more work to have to completely rewrite it for each one, too. What if you wrote an application in C++, but wanted it to be displayed in…
Listen to the podcast Download the .mp3 Subscribe via iTunes David Catuhe is a Principal Program Manager on Microsoft’s TED team in Redmond. He is also one of the master -minds behind the open source WebGL framework, BabylonJS. WebGL has grown leaps and bounds in recent years, and Babylon continues to iterate with it. As…
Unity, and Epic’s Unreal Engine, the popular middleware tools frequently used by game developers are not limited to creating compiled applications that run as an executable. Unity previously had a web player, which was a downloadable plugin that used ActiveX. Chrome killed support for NPAP (Netscape Plugin API), but announced it over one year ago.…
Today at //BUILD Day 2, Microsoft made a number of announcements regarding some tools and games they are working on for the web. Microsoft also announced that new name for our latest browser, Edge, after the new rendering engine, EdgeHTML. I liked that Spartan logo, too. Flight Simulator Arcade (http://flightarcade.com) – Inspired by the original…
Below are some links my co-worker, David Rousset, has compiled a list of links for Microsoft’s latest notes on Spartan. Introduction to Project Spartan: “Project Spartan” in the Windows Technical Preview build 10049 which introduces the new public chrome of Spartan. Please note that “Enable experimental web platform features” will be removed from IE11 in…
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You can find the video here. My peer in Chicago, David Giard, has a video podcast called “Technology and Friends”. During the MVP Open Days event in Philadelphia a few weeks ago, I had a chance to hop on and talk about WebGL, in addition to that, we cover asm.js, and how middleware tools like…
Earlier today, we flipped asm.js to “In Development” at status.modern.ie. Support for asm.js has beenone of the top 10 most-requested items at the IE Suggestion Box on UserVoice since we launched it in December. This is huge. What is asm.js? John Resig talked about it more in depth in his blog, some time ago. Here’s how…