Adobe Flash 10 Adds 3D Support: Public Beta Available for Download
Adobe's Flash Player 10 is nearing its official release date as a public beta is now available for download from Adobe Labs for Windows, OS X and Linux.
Some of the noted additions to Flash Player 10 is the support for 3D rendering effects, Adobe Pixel Blender Filters, new drawing APIs and a new text rendering engine. Those are great additions for the Web developers, but there's one particular addition that should make any average Web user happy. Adobe Flash Player 10 is going to make more use of hardware graphics acceleration, meaning that Flash applications will be quicker and smoother than previous.
The release is currently in beta form, so don't expect it to come bug free, but at least the Web developers can get to work creating new content and optimizing prior content for this new and improved Flash Player. And for those sitting in a cubicle farm right now: just wait. Soon enough you will reap the benefits of Adobe's new Flash Player with more exciting Flash games than ever before.
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Adding 3D to Flash is all good and well, but to be frank, it is completely meaningless to me unless they add support for 64-bit Windows Vista. The only thing stopping me from running IE in 64-bit mode is the lack of support in Flash, so all these other features are merely window dressing until they remedy that gigantic hole in the product.