Epic Games acquires Sketchfab, a 3D-model sharing platform – thoughts on what this means for 3D on the web..?

Nah, not likely.

Sketchfab is all about art, it’s in the title.

Epic has been focused on streaming and lightweight viewers of UE4 scenes; they have shown no interest in HTML5 as a platform other than what I just mentioned.

They have removed support for HTML5 from 4.24+ and even removed 32bit support from UE5 (making it incompatible with HTML5 for at least a year or until wasm64 is a thing).

Our studio however is working on extended HTML5 support and has 4.25, 4.26 and 4.27 support with UE5 incoming.

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