German university researchers developed a 3D page display technology for Firefox browsers

At cebit2010 on Wednesday, professor at Sal University in Germany said the researchers planned to launch a Firefox browser with a three-dimensional Web display function..Greatly enhancing the interaction of browser interfaces. According to slusallek, some game companies have already created specialized 3D plug-ins for browsers, but this timeResearchers want to add the 3D Web page display function to Firefox, and users do not need to install additional plug-ins..

Currently, there are two ways to draw 3D images in real time on two-dimensional screens: the traditional Raster Method and the real-time ray tracing method. This timeThe researchers are preparing to adopt the second method.Slusallek developed software that can perform real-time Ray Tracing computing, and said that the current rapid improvement in processor performance has laid a good foundation for the practical use of this technology.
Currently, this research group has named the "RT fact" real-time Ray Tracing TechnologyIntegrated into the WebKit component of the browser,WebKit is widely used in Firefox, Safari, chrome, and other browsers.Web page rendering component. Slusallek said that after using this technology, the images on the web page will be compiled using xml3d in the HTML Web programming language, while the browser can be able to render the web page images in this language.
At the CeBIT conference, slusallek showed participants how the interaction of the "Venice" entry page on Wikipedia was enhanced after 3D Web page display technology was used. During the presentation, he said: "You can stand on the top floor balcony overlooking Venice."
Researchers plan to launch a Firefox browser version containing RT fact technology within one to two weeks. However, they are still waiting for Mozilla to decide whether the browser can be directly followed by Firefox.
Researchers hope that their research results will attract the attention of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the Internet standardization group, in this way, more software vendors will apply this technology to their browser products.
The Rt fact technology was developed in collaboration with the German Center for artificial intelligence (German Research Center for artificial intelligence) and Intel's School of Visual Computing at the German Sal University.