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Reinventing the Web in Virtual Reality with Josh Carpenter and Vladimir Vukicevic

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Virtual reality technology is starting to take off. VR hardware has been steadily improving. VR films are getting a lot of attention. VR games are leveling up. But so far, virtual reality systems are closed platforms, each working with the equipment and software of one company. What could a cross-platform web of Virtual Reality look like? What might web designers do with a fully-immersive web experience? There's a team at Mozilla working on WebVR. Jen Simmons talks to Josh Carpenter and Vladimir Vukicevic to find out what they are doing.

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By the way, for the web designers listening — you have no idea how much fun you're about to have designing web worlds that are actually fully 3D with a genuine sense of scale and placement. It's unbelievable. It's like web designer's architecture. It's the most fun you're ever going to have.

Show Notes: 
List of Contents: 
  • The magic of virtuality
  • What might it mean to surf wikipedia.com as a virtual reality space?
  • How in the world might a fully immersive web work?
  • The differences between virtual reality, augmented reality, and mixed reality
  • How the web could be a broadcasting platform for VR films
  • The current state of VR hardware
  • Experiments at Mozilla
  • Progress on a web standard for WebVR
    • Duration: 
    4 014
    Technology: 
    Virtual reality
    WebGL
    Is there a transcript?: 
    Yes Transcript, Yes Comments
    Image caption: 

    A screenshot from the Google Cardboard app.

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