This video gives an overview of some of the new features currently being worked on in the latest release of HTML . There are some pretty impressive features and whats more all the big browsers producers seem to be working together!

Bruce Lawson from Opera: The HTML 5 Experiments from Sigurd Magnusson, SilverStripe on Vimeo.

For those of you who have not yet heard of Google Chrome, its a new (Yes another) web browser which offers all the delights of the other browsers except Google Chrome has remarkably quick javascript engine and is allowing developers to develop animations and other such eye candy without the need for flash. The site below demo's some of these examples and is well worth checking out,

http://www.chromeexperiments.com/

Google Wave is one of Googles new technologies. Set to land at the end of this year it’s a platform for collaboration and communication, it’s got some nice features and is well worth checking out.

3D graphics have appeared on the web in a few different forms over the years, but there never seems to be an industry-standard system or browser plugin that everyone can agree on. Some systems are long gone - does anyone still remember VRML?

So what's available now, and is it any good?

Build your own

Yes, it's possible to build your own 3D engine. My music video Dark Matter features 2D and 3D animations created in many different ways. Here's a looped version of part of it. Click on it to play/stop the video: