My previous post was ANSWERING Ventilator's question. He asked the following:



I answered. I was not attempting to continue to seek an answer to how to do this for all platforms/devices. Perhaps you should read a bit before jumping in and spewing.

Oh, and just because there may not be a solution ... yet ... does not mean one cannot be created.

almost no user will install some custom 3d plugin. browser plugins are huge security risks. so you can't really create a better solution yourself but must use what is already there.



i think webgl would be the best way to do it and it will only get better.

on modern browsers it will work without any plugin, and on ie it will work with a plugin:

http://www.irrlicht3d.org/pivot/entry.php?id=1211
(it is free now also for commercial use.)

i am not sure about the support of webgl on mobile devices but sooner or later they will support webgl too.

and solutions like coppercube can export the same project to flash and webgl. so you could also use flash on ie instead of the IEWebGL plugin.

RealSerious3D, I think this is the part that got JustSid's attention:We've established already that "no Flash" is a very small part of the restriction placed by iPad and iPhone -- it's "no Flash" because it's "no browser plugins at all". And no Java. Given those restrictions, any developer would have a hard time creating a solution, and we really just have to wait until iPad and iPhone support WebGL or provide an App for users to download specifically to browse your client's catalogue -- and I can't imagine many people would want to download an app just to look at sunglasses in 3D.

Of course, you could go a little ol' fashioned and have a looping animation of the glasses rotating which, with some JavaScript, you should be able to allow the viewer to scroll back and forth. This way they can rotate the glasses, but will be restricted to one axis. And this'd work well on iPad/iPhone -- they don't support WebGL yet but they do support just about everything else in HTML5.

Yes, I was thinking about doing that, but really wanted to avoid rendering out all the frames (not that it's difficult ... client reasons). And you are not just restricted to one axis ... depending on how you put it all together.

Fair enough, and true

There are possible solutions for this in HTML5. I'm still investigating. If anyone is interested, let me know and I will update this thread.

Copperlicht is nice. I'm trying it out. On my poor graphics chipset 400000 vertices with texture runs rather fine in the browser. It is webgl and html5. Not sure how well supported this is on mobile platforms. At least it isn't in IE. But nothing fancy is supported in IE .

http://html5gameengines.com/ is nice

Edit: ah, ventilator also mentioned copperlicht ^^

Just found it. Maybe, it does the job.
http://www.sketchfab.com/

Looks pretty cool. I'll have to test how the embed works.