Omar Shehata

Omar Shehata

Omar is a graphics programmer working on mapping software currently based in Ithaca, NY. He is the co-creator of a desktop game, Move or Die. He has published over a dozen flash games that have been played millions of times. He loves the the universal accessibility of creating things for the web and enjoys writing computer graphics tutorials to help others create awesome stuff for the web.
What Can you Do with WebGPU?
JS GameDev Summit 2022JS GameDev Summit 2022
9 min
What Can you Do with WebGPU?
One of the major new features WebGPU introduces is compute shaders. I'll cover the basics of how they work and go through some applications that weren't possible before on the web. Examples include Unreal Engine 5's compute-based rendering techniques, and complex particle simulations.