Google's O3D plugin was released to public yesterday.
O3D is a new solution from Google for making and publishing interactive real-time 3D applications. As everything that comes from big G, it is completely web oriented and aimed to run in a web browser. Very simple: you download and install the plugin (available for all major browsers [...]

Checked it twice, it's not an April fool (or they messed up the dates). The big ones, such as Engadget, Gizmodo, and Joystick considered it trustworthy. Nevertheless, no precise references can be found on the Net, and it seems that the original post is the only source for this.
Reportedly, Sony Computer Entertainment Europe filed a [...]

A really old news, took time to bubble up. It's all in the title : VastPark announced they started writing a plugin that will allow hosting of their IMML documents on OpenSim servers.
What does this mean?
OpenSim is a widely accepted free 3D (virtual world, in our case) application server. Up to now, all the protocols [...]

In response to a proposal by Mozilla, Khronos Group announced yesterday an initiative to create an open, royalty-free standard for bringing accelerated 3D graphics to the Web. A working group, chaired by Mozilla, is created and should come to first tangible results in a year. The working group will, they say, consider various approaches including [...]