2009/9/22 bawolff bawolff+wn@gmail.com:
We could display 3d world files (VRML and what not. which honestly this whole webGL thing imho seems to vrml/x3d what canvas is to svg - two sides of the same coin. but than again i'm not all that familiar with it). I'm not sure how useful that'd be. Could display 3d shapes perhaps where the user could control the viewpoint. Maybe to make 3d-tour esque things where you could look arround a place. Overall the uses of such a thing seem rather minimal.
Displaying 3D models is an obvious and useful one! I wonder if the rendering speed is useful. (The Firefox 3 and 3.5 SVG renderer is usably accurate, but *really slow*.)
We'd probably need a server-side renderer to drop back to. But yeah, that's a use for this.
- d.