As you can read about here, here, and here, Google has just released an experimental open source 3D browser plugin.
What this means to a Google Street View fan like me, is, now we have a place to create Virtual Worlds (not Google Lively ones) using real data – images and 3d measurements captured by Google’s awesome street view cars.
Posted by: MapsRus
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A great start with O3D, I do hope that Google adopt open standards so everyone can benefit and interoperate.
ExitReality web 3D app already achieves this on Internet Explorer, Firefox, Google Chrome, Apple Safari and Opera browsers.
It also supports all graphics cards in laptops, you don’t need a gamers machine to experience 3D multiuser worlds anymore.
All standard web picture, video and audio content are supported too along with Interactive Flash.
Full support for Khronos groups Collada format and ISO X3D open standards and MPEG4 avatar standards also.
By: Danny Stefanic on April 22nd, 2009
at 4:49 am