Adobe has just recently released the Flash Player 10 Beta. You can find out more here on Adobe Labs: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/. The hardware acceleration features are nice, but my favorite feature is the new 3D API. We will also be able to fine-tune effects and filters using the Adobe Pixel Blender toolkit. Flash Player 10 can load the filters (Hydra-Format) created by this toolkit.

Lee Brimelow was nice enough to create some introductory videos. Check them out at gotoAndLearn(). They demo some of the newest features, including the 3D Effects, new Sound API and the new Local File Support. Adobe’s Press release is here.