With WebGL, browsers will be able to render not just web pages but web scenes, and Famo.us can to it as well as HTML and Canvas.

Flight Stream, a startling WebGL visualization of global flight data, is a good reminder. Created by San Francisco-based British developer, Callum Prentice, it maps flights as pulsing dots on a ...

Indeed, it uses JavaScript and WebGL for rendering, which is fed with OpenStreetMap data for geographic entities, covering streets, buildings, bodies of water (rivers, canals, etc), and green areas.

It's a fantastic technical demonstration of how WebGL can be used for data visualization, but it's not really clear yet if it will help Web developers solve real-world problems.