Chrome to Play Games via Graphics Card, Processor?

Digit by Mihir Patkar / Jul 24,2009 / Tags: Chrome O3D, Web 3D, Web gaming, Native Client
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Is Google thinking of taking high-graphics 3D video games into the realm of cloud computing? A new mailing list announcement by Chrome programmer Greg Spencer points to just that, as Google is looking to harness your computer’s hardware processor and graphics card to boost the performance of Web content.

On the Chromium development group, Spencer wrote that they have begun building a specialised O3D plug-in for hardware-accelerated 3D graphics in the Chrome browser.

“The O3D team is working on getting O3D integrated into the Chromium build, and we're close to being able to complete our first step towards integration,” he wrote.

The move comes not a month after the announcement of Google’s ‘Native Client’ program, which enables the browser to harness the power of computer’s CPU.

While the talk right now is about plug-ins, both these technologies will eventually be built into the browser itself.