An open-source browser plug-in gives games and other Web applications the ability to take advantage of a computer's graphics chip. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

Google's O3D browser plug-in for accelerated 3D graphics on the Web shows no signs of life. But a similar idea, rebuilt with standard technology, looks to be its replacement. Stephen Shankland worked ...

Tired of staring through the Browser window and only seeing content in two dimensions? Google wants to take you back to the future by open-sourcing a new 3D web standard called O3D. The technology ...

Departing significantly from what other browsers offer, Google has begun building its O3D plug-in for hardware-accelerated 3D graphics into its Chrome browser. "The O3D team is working on getting O3D ...

Google has partly scrapped a browser plug-in project called O3D, instead throwing its full weight behind a 3D Web graphics technology called WebGL that got its start at Mozilla. The move has the ...

Google has released an experimental browser plugin that will make it possible to display rich 3D graphics in Web content. Google hopes that the plugin will stimulate discussion within the Web ...

The Khronos Group revealed this week that it will move forward with its plans to build a new 3D standard for the Web. Khronos, a technology industry consortium that developed OpenGL and a number of ...