So much for “inching”. It was always obvious that OpenGL support for the Pre was en route, but what was unexpected was that it would be up-and-running (courtesy, as usual, of the ever-amazing WebOS Internals group) so quickly. “bpadalino” gets the cred here, having whipped up a simple demo of a flat triangle with concentric circles, hypnotically and infinitely contracting inwards… ever-inwards… so sleepy…
Wait, where was I? Oh right. This is, of course, more proof that Palm is gearing up to announce proper GPU support for webOS apps – and it’s about time, too. A video of the OpenGL demo is embedded after the break (with thanks to Max Kanter from The MxWeb). Alternatively, you can catch it on the WebOS Internals YouTube channel.
