In Google’s announcement of its Chrome Beta 94 browser, it talks about how the company is implementing some new web standards that could make browser-based gaming experiences much better. Mountain View has been talking about its idea of making Chrome an ideal browser for gamers.
On the one hand, the WebCodecs, which will be published soon, could help make cloud gaming easier and fasterWhile the experimental WebGPU could make it easier for game developers to better harness the power of a PC. On the other hand, the WebGPU API improves graphics.
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What’s new in codec APIs
According to Google, the current media APIs (HTMLMediaElement, Media Source Extensions, WebAudio, MediaRecorder, and WebRTC) are high-level and have a limited focus. “A low-level codec API would allow better support for emerging applicationssuch as streaming games sensitive to latency, client-side effects, or transcoding without the increased network and CPU cost of JavaScript or WebAssembly codec implementations. “
In Chrome Beta 94 with the WebCodecs API these deficiencies are eliminated by offering programmers a way to use multimedia components that are already present in the browser. These are video and audio decoders and encoders, raw video frames, and image decoders, according to information provided by Google.
WebGPU and how Chrome could improve
For its part, as explained from Mountain View, the WebGPU API is the successor to the WebGL and WebGL2 graphics APIs for the Web. Offers features such as “GPU computing” as well as less expensive access to GPU hardware and better performance. WebGPU has modern graphics capabilities, specifically Direct3D 12, Metal, and Vulkan.
This translates to makes it easy for web developers to communicate with the graphics card in a language they understand, without having to go through other layers that could slow things down. It is a next-generation version of WebGL, allowing developers to take advantage of the OpenGL framework. In the future, this technology should make it easier for developers to create graphically powerful games that run in the browser.
This feature is starting a Chrome 94 test and the goal would be that arrive definitively in Chrome 99.