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Mozilla and Epic Preview Unreal Engine 4 Running in Firefox

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Re: Mozilla and Epic Preview Unreal Engine 4 Running in Firefox

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Was that video running in Chrome? Honest question, if that's the new Firefox, it really, really looks like Chrome...

Firefox's new theme does look a lot like Chrome. The tabs are more rounded and the color scheme is a bit different, but without going into the menus it's hard to tell them apart at first glance sometimes.

Re: Mozilla and Epic Preview Unreal Engine 4 Running in Firefox

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post #3

> demos Asm.js needs fewer demos and more finished production applications. Apparently Epic isn't excited enough about this technology to release one of their games on the web.

There aren't even any native Unreal Engine 4 games out yet that I'm aware of:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Unreal_Engine_games#Unr...

That's the purpose of this demo: to show that the Web stack is ready even for upcoming AAA games, not just ones from a few years ago.

Re: Mozilla and Epic Preview Unreal Engine 4 Running in Firefox

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This is neat and all, but I wonder if things are really better moving to "in the browser." The discussion is of "upwards of 60% as fast as native." Is this using the same amount of processing power as native, or is this "67% as fast as native, using 200% of the CPU as a native solution?"

I mean, I realize that processors and machines are only getting more capable. It seems silly to start requiring faster and faster processors to achieve what slower ones could have achieved. I would rather we just kept achieving more.

Re: Mozilla and Epic Preview Unreal Engine 4 Running in Firefox

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post #4

Was that video running in Chrome? Honest question, if that's the new Firefox, it really, really looks like Chrome...

Firefox's new theme does look a lot like Chrome. The tabs are more rounded and the color scheme is a bit different, but without going into the menus it's hard to tell them apart at first glance sometimes.

https://blog.mozilla.org/ux/2013/11/australis-is-landing-in-...

Re: Mozilla and Epic Preview Unreal Engine 4 Running in Firefox

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post #3

> demos Asm.js needs fewer demos and more finished production applications. Apparently Epic isn't excited enough about this technology to release one of their games on the web.

There is a link in this blog post to one from late last year that describes the first commercial game powered by asm.js being launched: https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2013/12/12/first-3d-commercial...

Re: Mozilla and Epic Preview Unreal Engine 4 Running in Firefox

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Epic Games and Mozilla are demonstrating how the Web is continuing to evolve as a powerful platform [..]

And you're still using a youtube embed because a single, simple tag like is too effin' problematic.

Yeah yeah, I get it. isn't relevant to gaming. WebGL and gaming are cool new stuff, is prehistoric crap nobody cares about anymore. The world has moved on.

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