Flash Player 12 'link' Site
FP12 allowed a video stream to be mapped directly onto a 3D model as a GPU texture. Sounds cool for YouTube in a VR cinema, right? But Hollywood saw it as the end of the world.
Internally codenamed FP12 promised native 64-bit support for Linux and Windows without the half-baked "Square" preview. It also introduced Concurrency via ActionScript Workers —actual multithreading. flash player 12
We all remember the jump from Flash 8 to CS3. We remember the stability of Flash Player 9, the GPU push of 10, and the 3D acceleration of 11. Then… the world stopped. We went from 11 to “Animate CC” and the funeral pyre of mobile plugins. FP12 allowed a video stream to be mapped