Got steered to this via a TechCrunch feed.
"...to show off what game developers can do with a modern browser and
without plugins today, Mozilla and Epic teamed up a little while ago to
port Unreal Engine 3 to the web, something that was unthinkable back in
2011.
As Vladimir Vukicevic, Mozilla’s engineering director and the
inventor of WebGL told me earlier this week, Mozilla wants to make the
web a viable platform for modern games. About six months ago, Mozilla
started to work on using its emscripten compiler to port C and C++ code to asm.js,
a strict subset of JavaScript. This combination allows the JavaScript
code to run at a speed within 2x of native performance and the latest
versions of Firefox Nightly now support these optimizations. Given the
complexities of modern game engines and games, getting relatively close
to native performance is a necessity for running something like Epic’s
well-known Citadel demo and Unreal Tournament, which Mozilla showed running natively in the browser at the Game Developers Conference today."
It's pretty slick and smooth, as the video shows.
Innersting, innersting stuff...
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
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