3D graphics in our browser has been a long term target for various developers, Google being one of the better known ones for creating a demo of it last year. Recently, AMD became the latest company to take a step in the direction of realizing this target and releasing drivers for the WebGL standard that is made to drive the web 3D graphics revolution. WebGL is essentially the online equivalent of the OpenGL standard that is used by hardware manufacturers. With more entertainment and productivity options moving to the cloud, web graphics are becoming very important. Also, now that an entire OS is moving its operations online (Google’s Chrome OS), the browser is in focus like never before. This is pushing developments of newer visual standards that have resulted in things like video tags in the HTML5 standard and the WebGL industry standard. The AMD OpenGL ES 2.0 drivers aim to enable an ‘application-like’ experience within your browser with full 3D graphics that will (hopefully) completely change the way you see web applications and the internet in general.

AMD was quoted saying that they see the future of computing as being “intensely visual” and they are constantly evolving their technologies to match the emerging 2D and 3D applications that are already the norm in the industry. According to the company, AMD is trying to become the ideal developmental platform for these applications through technologies like the OpenGL ES 2.0 and the AMD Fusion APU’s.

The OpenGL ES 2.0 drivers will arrive with the ATI Catalyst 10.7 beta version from AMD sometime today. The OpenGL ES 2.0 drivers should be a-ok to handle for all AMD cards that have been released since 2008, which makes it available for a wide range os users. The support includes models of ATI Radeon desktop, ATI FirePro professional and ATI Mobility Radeon graphics cards. [via]