The advancements offered by Stage3D should bring far more complex graphics development for the player, and allow some developers to use it as a viable alternative for their projects, especially for cross-platform efforts. Although it's only for desktops at the time of writing, Adobe promises that it will soon take Stage3D to its mobile apps. Stage3D brings combined hardware-accelerated 2D and 3D graphics rendering that's up to 1,000 times faster than previous versions of AIR. If you try to install an AIR app without having previously installed AIR, you'll be automatically prompted to download it. One very well-known AIR app is TweetDeck. It's powerful and respected for giving people the same end-user experience, whether on Windows, Mac, or Linux.
In case you're new to AIR, which means Adobe Integrated Runtime, it's a platform that runs applications across multiple systems without coding in more than one language. AIR 3 brings some hefty speed improvements to the system, thanks to a little something new called Stage3D.
It hasn't ignored its other content-delivery system: Adobe AIR. As Adobe has focused on Flash Player development in the aftermath of the rise of HTML5,
