Google in exploring human body

Google has come out with another innovative approach which is an educational tool called as Google Body Browser which uses HTML5 technology to let you examine the human body in fully layered, three-dimensional detail.

Google Body Browser does not load in any general browser as the app uses WebGL, a plug-in-free programming interface, to power its 3D graphics. WebGL is a relatively new standard, and most major browsers are still testing its implementation. Very soon the stable versions of Chrome and Firefox (and most others) will also offer integrated WebGL support other than just the beta versions.

Google showed off the app at the WebGL Camp. WebGL is a cross-platform low-level 3D graphics API that is designed to bring plugin-free 3D to the web. It uses the HTML5 Canvas element and does not require Flash, Java or other graphical plugins to run.

When you open Google Body Browser in a WebGL-enabled program, you're greeted with a three-dimensional layered model of the human anatomy that you can zoom in on, rotate and search. While you start using the Google Body Browser layering tool, located below the zoom controls is the layering tool that allows peeling back layers of the body to see detailed views of the human anatomy. With the help of a compatible browser, the Body Browser home page can be visited that shows off the human body. The various layers of skin, muscles, tissues and the skeletal system can be adjusted very easily. The most interesting fact drawn is that if organ or bone or ventricle system is typed down, it directly takes the viewer to that area in the anatomy, zoomed in. The labels can turn labels on or off and the app supports multitouch so users of trackpads multi-touch mice can zoom in with ease.

Another fact that is worth being mentioned is that the body browser adjusts its URL so as to save a particular where all what is required to be done is to copy the current web address. It has been presumed that the browser has been designed for healthcare industry but it is also capable of educating students and lecturers as well.