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Comment: Re:Can I be on Slashdot... (Score 1) 109

by 2.7182 (#43178783) Attached to: Take Hands-Free 360 Degree Panoramic Photos With an iPhone (Video)

Why Hasn't 3D Taken Off For the Web? 320

Posted by samzenpus
from the adding-some-depth dept.
First time accepted submitter clockwise_music writes "With HTML5 we're closer to the point where a browser can do almost everything that a native app can do. The final frontier is 3D, but WebGL isn't even part of the HTML5 standard, Microsoft refuses to support it, Apple wants to push their native apps and it's not supported in the Android mobile browser. Flash used to be an option but Adobe have dropped mobile support. To reach most people you'd have to learn Javascript, WebGL and Three.js/Scene.js for Chrome/Firefox, then you'd have to learn Actionscript + Flash for the Microsofties, then learn Objective-C for the apple fanboys, then learn Java to write a native app for Android. When will 3D finally become available for all? Do you think it's inevitable or will it never see the light of day?"

Comment: Re:Curiosity cost $2B USD (Score 1) 71

by 2.7182 (#42471435) Attached to: Rare Water-Rich Mars Meteorite Discovered
But we could have given it to condensed matter physics research, which gets way less than NASA, or other branches of physics, such as particle physics, yet has numerous applications, while still contributing to our fundamental understanding of the world, through applications of quantum field theory and statistical mechanics.

"What I've done, of course, is total garbage." -- R. Willard, Pure Math 430a