{"id":62564,"date":"2014-03-13T14:24:31","date_gmt":"2014-03-13T12:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=62564"},"modified":"2014-03-13T14:24:31","modified_gmt":"2014-03-13T12:24:31","slug":"unreal-engine-4-shown-running-in-web-browser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/62564-unreal-engine-4-shown-running-in-web-browser","title":{"rendered":"Unreal Engine 4 shown running in web browser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Epic Games and Mozilla released a video on 13 March 2014 demonstrating the Unreal Engine 4 running in Firefox.<\/p>\n<p>The video was posted to show the potential of the web as a platform for gaming, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/blog\/2014\/03\/12\/mozilla-and-epic-preview-unreal-engine-4-running-in-firefox\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mozilla blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The video, shown below, features Epic Games&#8217; &#8220;Soul&#8221; and &#8220;Swing Ninja&#8221; demos running at near-native speeds in the web browser without plugins.\u00a0According to the post, the engine is being designed to scale between consoles, mobile devices, PC and the web.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This technology has reached a point where games that users can jump into via a Web link are now almost indistinguishable from ones they might have had to wait to download and install,&#8221; wrote Mozilla&#8217;s senior vice president of engineering Brendan Eich.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We were blown away by what this Mozilla-pioneered technology achieved with Unreal Engine 3 on the Web, so we had no hesitation in working with Mozilla to port Unreal Engine 4,&#8221; said Epic Games&#8217; Tim Sweeney.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We believe the web has a crucial part to play in the future of game development and deployment, and Mozilla has proven it is the catalyst to make this happen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/c2uNDlP4RiE?rel=0\" height=\"338\" width=\"600\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h6>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.polygon.com\/2014\/3\/12\/5501322\/watch-unreal-engine-4-running-in-firefox\" target=\"_blank\">Polygon<\/a><\/h6>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/62554-sa-call-of-duty-team-verus-the-world.html\">SA Call of Duty team versus the world<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/62559-1000000-gamerscore-it-has-been-done.html\">1,000,000 Gamerscore \u2013 it has been done<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/broadband\/62561-afrihost-cuts-pre-paid-adsl-pricing.html\">Afrihost cuts pre-paid ADSL pricing<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/62546-which-is-the-best-tablet-pc-for-gaming.html\">The best tablet PC for gaming?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The power of the web as a platform in gaming&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":214,"featured_media":59751,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,1415,8429,3864,9441,4379],"class_list":["post-62564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-epic-games","tag-game-video","tag-gaming-news","tag-mozilla-firefox","tag-unreal-engine-4"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/214"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62567,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62564\/revisions\/62567"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}