Gaming in Google Chrome is going to get better!

Gaming in your Google Chrome web browser will soon be better. Read here what the tech company is doing to make this happen.

Google’s Chrome Beta 94 announcement mentions that Google is implementing some new web standards that can make browser-based gaming experiences (even) better. This is because there will soon be WebCodecs released turn into. These should be able to help make gaming in the cloud easier. But also make it faster.

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In addition to the Webcodecs, there is an experimental WebGPU for developers of games that run in the browser. These make it easier to use the power of your computer.

Back to the WebCodecs. This is an API designed to give developers better access to the video encoding/decoding codecs. These are already included with your browser. These work to figure out what to do with video streams. Sure, there are already ways to play videos in Chrome. But these aren’t necessarily designed for things like cloud gaming. This API is made in such a way that overhead is a thing of the past, this makes it easier to get an incoming video stream on your screen as quickly as possible. This will theoretically also make it perform better than it currently does on slower machines.

The so-called WebGPU is new. This gives web developers better access to your computer’s graphics power. This by connecting them to your computer’s own graphical API. Thus, it is intended as a next-generation version of WebGL. This allows developers to use the (obsolete) OpenGL framework. In the future, the technology should make it easier for developers to create graphically intense games that run in the browser, leveraging the full power of the current generation of GPUs.

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Finally, the techniques can also be used in other ways. In a previous talk, Google mentioned that Zoom was interested in using WebCodecs for video conferencing. And that WebGPU will be used to display 3D models in the browser or to accelerate machine learning models. The technology is open source. It is developed by W3C. At the moment, other browser makers are testing them.