Mozilla teams up with Epic to demo Unreal Engine 3 in the Browser
There’s probably no better way to show off the power of the web as a Gaming platform than to take a full, commercial game engine and show it playing in the browser smoothly and fluidly.
Mozilla has done just that by teaming up with Epic to bring a demo of their Unreal 3 Game engine to the web using WebGL, Emscripten and Asm.js – the easier to accelerate subset of JavaScript.
Unlike other technologies like Native Client, Asm.js aims to be a compilation target for other languages that uses only a portion of the features of JavaScript to make it easier for JavaScript engines to just-in-time compile code to start to approach native speeds.
Read more on Mozilla’s blog Mozilla is Unloacking the Power of the Web as a Platform for Gaming and check out the video below.