Who needs Xbox? Mozilla wants to bring console-quality games to your browser [feedly]

 
 

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Who needs Xbox? Mozilla wants to bring console-quality games to your browser

At first glance, the idea of playing Bioshock Infinite on your web browser sounds like a pipe dream. But according to Ars Technica, it's a pipe dream that Mozilla is working very hard to make real by porting Epic Games' Unreal Engine 3 onto its open-source Firefox web browser. To achieve this daunting task, Ars says Mozilla "has been working on WebGL, in order to bring 3D graphics to the browser; Emscripten, a tool for compiling C++ applications into JavaScript; and asm.js, a high performance subset of JavaScript."

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