[bhouston]

Interactive raytracing is the future both in mobile and desktop. My project http://clara.io, an online 3D modeler + renderer, recently gained the ability to do embeded interactive ray traced 3D embeds using V-Ray (one of the best and most accurate renderers in the world).

It works best on Chrome, Firefox and Safari:

https://plus.google.com/u/0/+BenHouston3D/posts/DYq2RKJENC5

Here is another example:

https://twitter.com/exocortexcom/status/443538733661704192

I can only see raytracing becoming more popular.

[s-macke]

That's really great. Did you use emscripten or is the renderer programmed in Javascript?

[bhouston]

It is cloud streaming, this is because we do not want to be limited by the CPU/memory capabilities of the client. V-Ray is an amazing renderer, but for complex scenes it can require +32GB and use up to 40 cores or even clusters of machines. We want to virtualize that infrastructure for our users.

[ddorian43]

its not rendered on the frontend, but in the cloud (read the twitter responses)