As we predicted in the 2015 trends, WebGL is - after years of promise - finally making its way to the online visualisation solutions this year. While some of the developments (e.g. Unity 5 platform capabilities and consistent support in various web-browsers) have certainly been slower than we would had liked them to be, the time to move to next level of visualisation has now arrived.

WebGL (a 3D graphics library built into browsers) has for some years had the promise of becoming the next way of implementing 3D visualisation web-applications. While the benefits of WebGL are clear - a barrier-free user experience on any browser without installation of any plug-ins - the limited support by the browser vendors as well as the performance and feature gaps to the plug-in-technologies has so far slowed down the technology adoption.