The Kronos Group, with assistance from Google & Mozilla, are looking to develop a standard for 3D visualization & rendering within the browser, probably based on their existing OpenES standard (OpenGL for embedded systems).

Prompted by a proposal from Mozilla the Khronos Group said it has created a working group called “Accelerated 3D on the Web.” Mozilla has offered to chair the group which is open to any interested company that joins Khronos.

Chris Blizzard, Mozilla’s director of evangelism, said that he expects the new graphics capabilities would be integrated into the Firefox browser that follows the release of Firefox 3.5, which is what the current Firefox 3.1 beta 3 should become. Firefox 3.5 is expected to be officially released in the second quarter of this year.

They’ve already helped build the standards for OpenGL, OpenCL, OpenVG, Collada, and others, so if there’s a group that could pull this off, they’re it.

via Google, Mozilla Back 3-D Acceleration Web Standard — 3-D Graphics — InformationWeek.