Steve Newcomb wants touchscreen user interfaces for mobile web apps to be beautiful with enhanced 3D graphics. The chief executive of Famo.us is releasing what he calls “jaw-dropping demos” today of what he has in mind for his platform technology, which takes advantage of the WebGL protocol.
Famo.us Space Puppy demo.
The demos of the Famo.us front-end framework show how developers can incorporate 3D graphics in mobile web app that doesn’t slow down to a crawl on a smartphone or tablet. The reason this is possible is because mobile web browsers are about support the WebGL format by default. WebGL is the web’s equivalent of native support for Open GL, the open 3D graphics standard that enables a device to take advantage of the built-in 3D graphics hardware in the device.
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