Flash Player 11 to watch. The next version of Adobe Reader will pass to 3D with a new API called Molehill. Requires 3D acceleration, Flash Player 11 will require a suitable hardware configuration: a Windows PC with a DirectX 9 graphics card, a Mac running Mac OS X 10.6 or Linux machine with a graphics card that supports OpenGL.
Indeed, Molehill is able to work with either OpenGL or DirectX 9. Molehill is an API that is intended to manage the 3D in Flash, using the GPU of course. Currently, since Flash 10.1, Adobe enables 3D effects on 2D, what the company calls the 2.5D, and the effects are rendered on the CPU, which limits performance.
Molehill require a DirectX 9 card compatible with Windows, OpenGL 1.3 card in Linux and Mac OS X and a map OpenGL ES 2.0 mobile devices. For now, Flash Player 11.0.0.58 is what Adobe calls a "Incubator" and is obviously not intended for production use. Eventually, the API will be used in Flash Player, but also in the Air framework. 
Indeed, Molehill is able to work with either OpenGL or DirectX 9. Molehill is an API that is intended to manage the 3D in Flash, using the GPU of course. Currently, since Flash 10.1, Adobe enables 3D effects on 2D, what the company calls the 2.5D, and the effects are rendered on the CPU, which limits performance.
Molehill require a DirectX 9 card compatible with Windows, OpenGL 1.3 card in Linux and Mac OS X and a map OpenGL ES 2.0 mobile devices. For now, Flash Player 11.0.0.58 is what Adobe calls a "Incubator" and is obviously not intended for production use. Eventually, the API will be used in Flash Player, but also in the Air framework.
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