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Flash 10.2 will do 3D streaming video
HOT ON THE HEELS of Flash 10.1 The INQUIRER has learned that 10.2 will enable the streaming of 3D video from websites such as Youtube.
With almost zero 3D content available the streaming of uploaded video and the webcasting of special events is viewed as a way of encouraging consumers to take up the eye boggling technology. The experimental streaming of 3D video from a special event took place earlier this year with the Masters golf tournament, care of the US cable network Comcast. See those balls fly, right at you! While for the uploading of 3D home movies of cats flushing toilets that can be streamed to millions, Cyberlink's PowerDVD 10 has an update that will enable peoples' videos to become three dimensional.
The streaming of 3D video was demonstrated at an Nvidia briefing using an Alpha version of the 10.2 update. Nvidia has been working with Adobe on the software. "Later this year there will be a 3D update for Flash, it's 10.2," Nvidia's 3D vision senior product manager Patrick Beaulieo told The INQUIRER. Beaulieo had no date for the 10.2 update and would only say that it would be released "later this year".
Next week Nvidia could be providing updated drivers that enable its graphics cards to work with Microsoft's Silverlight to stream 3D content. A new logo called 3D Vision is being promoted by Nvidia to identify that a PC or other product is 3D capable. µ
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@Chris
Safari is by default 64-bit in OS X Snow Leopard, but is thankfully able to use existing 32-bit plugins so you don't need to wait on anyone.
I would ask Flash to do any 2D stuff, never talk about 3Ds...
Is killing my machine(s).
@MattFlashedOut
As much as I am tired of flash and have flash-blocking software within my browser, to say they are procrastinating with a 64-bit build is not really fair. One major problem is that you must use a 64-bit browser to install it onto, right? And today those types of browsers just are not mainstream. I think only recently did Mozilla come out with a 64-bit version of firefox, but there aren't any plug-ins available for it yet since the original 32-bit versions of them won't work. I know with Vista, there was a 64-bit version of IE installed (for the record, I never use IE) but the couple of times I did use it, I recall not being able to access some websites and had to use the 32-bit version instead. I think, perhaps, Adobe found it more logical to wait until 64-bit browsers (and websites) become more mainstream before allocating resources into that development.
As for 3D flash, that means it's only a matter of time before everyone is hit with (useless & annoying) 3D Flash ads.
Ok, I thought Adobe explicitly stated last year that 10.2 was going to be focused on upgrading Flash to a 64-bit application. It was indicated that once 10.1 with the hardware acceleration was completed, 64-bit would be the focus.
If they're now saying that 10.2 is going to bring about 3D, I find it unlikely they will develop 64-bit alongside......
Sure HTML5 does 3D, most of the time that's just playing a video that's encoded for some format, doesn't matter for the player really, only when you need syncing signals it becomes an issue, but I'm sure that's trivial to add.
Pre-v10 youtube already does 3D btw, in anaglyph and interlaced and side by side as I recall, so it's really only the syncing signals, which you could extract from the video and make available for the glasses to sync to.