The main improvement brought to Babylon.js 6.0 is support for the Havok physics engine. Compared to Microsoft's approach, Google has decided to avoid the WebGL route with its own next-generation 3D API named WebGPU.

The engine and the web applications written on it are natively interpreted in a web browser capable of running HTML5 code and WebGL applets for 3D rendering. The latest version of the engine is available under a more traditional Apache License (2.0), though, and more than 190 contributors and some commercial companies (like Ubisoft) are now working on it.īabylon.js source code is based on TypeScript (a subset of the JavaScript language) and it gets compiled into a JavaScript-compatible version. Babylon.js 6.0 greatly improves the engine's capabilities and performance, giving web developers a chance to exploit a leading technology for physics-based graphics without requiring a supercomputer to render more than 15 fps on the screen.īabylon.js was created by Microsoft developers David Catuhe and David Rousset as a free side-project, and it was initially released by the Redmond corporation in 2013 under a 'shared source license' (Microsoft Public License). Microsoft announced the release of Babylon.js 6.0, the new version of its real-time 3D engine for displaying 3D graphics in an HTML5-compatible web browser. Google is working on its next-generation engine, while Microsoft keeps improving a project born out of a couple of developers' free time. In context: Web technology is acquiring new, native-class 3D rendering capabilities faster than ever.

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