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The Many Faces of Away 3D

Since its inception, the explosion of 3D Flash content around the world has still not fully subsided. Yet we are already seeing the beginnings of a secondary stage of evolution and innovation. Demand for 3D graphics in the browser is as high as ever, and with the help of its ubiquity, Flash is still the most compatible 3D plugin existing on the web today.

• Difficulty: Fundamental
• Prerequisites: Basic understanding of the different types of web content and web tools. Flash knowledge helpful but not essential
• Session Track: UX Design,RIA,Flash

Session Detail

In this session, Rob explores some of the potential new features now becoming available for creating high quality 3D Flash experiences in the browser, with help from the 3D friendly Flash 10 Player and some of the latest Away3D releases and related technologies arriving from the open source community.

Speakers

Rob Bateman (London, UK)

Rob Bateman is the co-founder of Away3D, a popular open source framework for producing realtime 3D graphics in Flash. He has been involved in programming for the web for over 10 years, and created his first 3D engine back in 2001 using Flash 5. It was pretty terrible. Since then he has worked for a variety of agencies and institutions, the longest stint at the BBC where he moved into Flash fulltime and created many successful games and applications for the BBC Sport and News websites. More...