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    V8 powered Web/Desktop/Mobile GL

    V8GLES enables you to deploy a WebGL application across several platforms. Currently we support X11/Linux using EGL (Mesa) or GLX with OpenGL 4.1 (we need GLX_CONTEXT_ES2_PROFILE_BIT_EXT), any WebGL enabled browser and Android (platform 8 and up with ARMv7 and up).

     

    The sample video shows one of the three.js samples running on these platforms.

    The idea is to use javascript with V8 and rely on the WebGL API to create the application. We don't support the DOM but have added some simple mockup objects and functions to make the samples work (document, window, etc...).

    Once/If Apple removes the JIT restrictions and allow running V8 on it we should be able to get this to work on iOS as well.

    We will be working on a few issues and trying to get some more APIs in there (Audio, Device Orientation, etc) to try and make it a full game development solution.

    Hope you like it.

    Feel free to get in touch with questions / comments / suggestion.

    • 7 July 2011
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    Jul 30, 2011
    Nicolas said...
    Hi, this looks very similar to a project I started a few years ago, called V8-GL. My question is, is this based on my project? https://github.com/philogb/v8-gl#readme
    Aug 01, 2011
    Nelson Silva said...
    Hi Nicolas,

    First of all congrats on V8-GL. I'm well aware of the project but short answer is no.
    Actually it started after looking at some node.js stuff (nodejs-canvas and nodejs-webgl).
    The idea was to support enough webgl to get webgl-2d to work, thus implementing a canvas on top of webgl, and then get something like canvg working as well.
    I feel frustrated for having so many graphic implementation with no connection! Ideally we would have a webgl canvas and then have everything on top of that (HTML, 2D canvas and SVG).
    This would allow us to create pure javascript apps with hardware acceleration which could be deployed cross platform.
    I started adding support for Cloud9 IDE, connecting the app to the Cloud9 server through WebDAV. The main goal here is to target Android devices and have an online IDE for developing games and all sort of graphics apps.

    Aug 04, 2011
    Nate said...
    How do we get a hold of V8GLES?
    Aug 04, 2011
    Paul said...
    I too would like to know where we can get V8GLES. Looks very promising.
    Aug 05, 2011
    Nelson Silva said...
    Thank you all for your interest. unfortunately V8GLES is not ready for release. We are a research oriented company and will try to get funding to develop this further. If anyone is interested in supporting this project and would like to use it to develop apps and/or games please get in touch with us at contact [at] inevo [dot] pt
    Sep 01, 2011
    Tim Caswell said...
    I too started a similar project this weekend. I added some GLESv2 bindings to nodejs and exposed it webGL style.

    http://nodeknockout.com/teams/minimason
    github.com/creationix/node-webgl

    It's probably not as complete, but it runs a few demos once the dom components are removed.

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