Friday, March 4, 2011

WebGL specification 1.0 released


The WebGL 1.0 specification was released this morning at GDC in San Francisco. Khronos has published a press release on the subject.

The press release also announces that Khronos is forming up a working group for WebCL to explore defining a JavaScript binding to the Khronos OpenCL™ standard for heterogeneous parallel computing. As said in the press release:

"WebCL creates the potential to harness GPU and multi-core CPU parallel processing from a Web browser, enabling significant acceleration of applications such as image and video processing and advanced physics for WebGL games."