Khronos Releases Final WebGL 1.0 Specification

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Mar
4

Yesterday the Khronos Group – a consortium of media-centric companies including Dell, Google, HP, IBM, AMD, Apple, Intel, Nokia, nVidia, and many more, released the 1.0 version of the WebGL standard.

WebGL is a mechanism to extend JavaScript to allow HTML5-compliant browsers to render 3D graphics with hardware acceleration.

While other parts of the HTML5 specification is important for the future of browser-based imaging applications, 3D features such a virtualoscopies have become increasingly important with the explosion of data volumes generated by recent generation modalities such as CT.

WebGL is an important stepping stone therefore to a fully featured brpwser based Radiography viewing application.

However, as is noted here, there is a small paragraph slipped into the end of the press release that offers even greater hope for the future:

WebCL creates the potential to harness GPU and multi-core CPU parallel processing from a Web browser, enabling significant acceleration of applications such as image and video processing….

Now that is only in an exploratory phase at the moment but if that can be driven to widespread browser adoption we can truly say bye bye to ‘fat’ clients.

Launch of Inaugural Course in York Educate series

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Mar
3

Today we can announce the launch of the inaugural course in the York Educate series.

DICOM Troubleshooting is a 1 day on-site course to understand how to diagnose DICOM communications issues – particularly between vendors.  Click through to read more.