Google O3D: browser plug-in for IE, Firefox, Safari, and Chrome

On Tuesday Google released some new software called O3D, this plug-in will bring accelerated 3D graphics to browsers such as Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE), Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari , Linux and Google’s Chrome

Google hopes that the O3D browser plug-in technology will be built directly into browsers. The software provides an interface, this allows developers’ Web-based JavaScript programs to tap directly into the computers graphics card chip, this means that we can expect to see better games, along with applications.

Google has been showing off this new software in a blog post, in the post you will see a video demonstration along with a cool a soothing soundtrack. This kind of technology was tried out back in the 1990s; Virtual Reality Markup Language (VRML) did not really take off.

Today the Internet is very different and it is time for another try, and who better to try it than the might of Google.