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This same page appear on HN almost 3 year ago : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4008040.

Interesting how this all WebGL stuff is still so "hacky" and not yet commonly used all around .

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I don't think WebGL is hacky if you approach it right.

We have 100,000 users who have created +180,000 scenes using advanced WebGL and it is really stable: http://clara.io.

Here is a new demo scene I've been working on. PBR materials (w/ clear coat), area lights, HDR, bloom, DOF and FXAA:

https://clara.io/view/d3b82831-d56b-462f-b30c-500ea1c7f870/w...

And you can edit any part of the mesh or materials or animation or lighting in our editor.

It's really cool but please to not link to the "real time" tab? It almost hung my browser :) (FF37, shitty old netbook)

So sorry... We'll all make an effort to keep the internet slow while you're browsing on your shitty netbook.

Just for the lols i visited the link on my phone... It worked! All the blurs and reflections all of it worked. Hats off to your team. Frame rates though were laggy but i'm still impressed.

I love WebGL and 3D graphics and particles, and love seeing WebGL becoming ubiquitous (when I first played with it I had to download a nightly of Firefox). But it's really hard to come up with a business use case that justifies using WebGL in say, a marketing product, or an online marketplace.

Maybe because it isn't available everywhere, specially in mobile platforms?

It is available on all new Android and iOS devices. And it mostly works (although less so iOS devices.)

As if everyone just would dump their devices and buy new ones for WebGL.

Not everyone is using iOS 8 and Chrome blacklists lots of Android handsets, and lets not forget about other mobile OSes.

I also assume you also checked Android Auto and TVs regarding WebGL support.

> As if everyone just would dump their devices and buy new ones for WebGL.

That just happens every three years, and we don't have to do anything about that.

Maybe in your country, on my country people buy handsets full price with pre-paid cards and use them until they die.

Maybe in your country, in my country people repair their handsets when they die and pass them on from generation to generation as family heirlooms.

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