Firefox developers are making efforts to support stereovideo (“3D cinema”) in WebM format (for the HTML5 video tag), first on nVidia video cards

This has never been announced publicly and officially. (Anyway, I haven’t heard yet.) However, if you go on your own and take a good look, you find the most unequivocal evidence: right now, in the development environment, HTML5 is in full swing working on the <video> tag in the HTML5 language Among other things, to display stereo video recordings (they are also “3D cinema”, they are also “3D video”) - at least on modern nVidia video cards.

It is well known that the WebM Internet video format (actively promoted by Google, for example) is based on the Matroska container . So: it turns out, the container developers began a lively correspondence in the summer of 2010 (here is an example of a letter ) on the issue of standardizing the packaging of stereo and video recordings in this container. At present, this process seems to have reached its outcome and allows for the development of specific software implementations.

And the implementation was not slow to appear!
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The content of patches and correspondence on several "bugs" that have passed to the "FIXED" state in the Mozilla Foundation's bagzilla ([ 584255 ], [ 584259 ], [ 617220 ]) allows you to make sure that pieces of NvD3D-specific code (implying Direct3D work) on vidyuh nVidia) already landed in different beta versions of the browser Firefox 4 (including - in the last, tenth beta), and with the calculation of both DirectX 9 and DirectX 10.

Thus, the future web vision will be stereoscopic - and not just flat, as many thought.

_{I wonder how far this evolution can go. It is unlikely that its course will be limited to only the <video> element. I see such an analogue of the “z-index” CSS-property , which will control not the layer overlay order, but the actual application of the element. Again, there is also WebGL ...}