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 ...

WebGL (Web Graphics Library) is a JavaScript API that enables hardware-accelerated 2D and 3D graphics directly in the browser via the HTML canvas. It powers tools like Google Maps, enables web-based ...

PARIS—As the curtain goes up on the Game Developers Conference in San Jose, Calif. tomorrow (March 4), the Khronos Group, an industry outfit developing subset profiles for the OpenGL graphics standard ...

Microsoft is making Windows 10 friendlier to gaming developers like Valve and Steam, after its Windows 8 "catastrophe" left the gaming world in the lurch. The Redmond company has announced a new ...

Apple is promoting the development of a standard API that would allow web browsers to access GPU features for 3D graphics. The team behind Apple’s WebKit browser engine proposed a community group at ...

The Khronos Group has released new open source tools that allows the Vulkan API, a 3D graphics API, to work on iOS and macOS, a move that can make it easier for developers to port games to Apple's ...

AMD has announced a new low-level 3D graphics API called Mantle that will be used in its upcoming Radeon chips but there's speculation that it's actually a port of the API used in the Xbox One console ...

Apple's WebKit team on Tuesday proposed a new Community Group at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) that will focus on developing a new standard API, perhaps based on Metal, for accelerating ...

DirectX 12 is likely the best-known 3D graphics application programming interface (API) for Windows 10, and it’s used for today’s advanced PC games and virtual reality (VR) solutions. However, there’s ...

Google has launched a new project for Chrome that will let the browser run a wider range of 3D graphics content without downloading additional drivers. The open-source project, called ANGLE (Almost ...