59: Web VR and AR

Summary

Brandon Jones (@tojiro) of Google & Joshua Carpenter (@joshcarpenter) of Mozilla talk with the Web Platform Podcast about the emerging Web VR (Web Virtual Reality) specification which encampasses both AR (Augmented Reality) & VR for the Web Platform. Valve, Microsoft, Facebook, and others have put a lot of effort into changing the way we interact with computers using VR & AR on the native platforms. Now we can share this experience on the web and build the interfaces of tomorrow and the holodecks of the next generation.     

Resources

• mozvr - http://mozvr.com/

• web vr - http://webvr.info

• shadertoy - https://www.shadertoy.com/ (BEWARE - this may crash your browser if your GPU is poor)

• OSVR - http://www.razerzone.com/osvr

• Web VR Spec - http://mozvr.github.io/webvr-spec/webvr.html

• Oculus Rift Dev Kit - https://www.oculus.com/en-us/dk2/

• Project Tango Dev Kit -  https://store.google.com/product/project_tango_tablet_development_kit

• Tango G+ Community - https://plus.google.com/communities/114537896428695886568

• Google Cardboard - https://www.google.com/get/cardboard/

• Web VR Mailing List for Contributing - https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/web-vr-discuss

• The Web Ahead with the MozVR team -http://thewebahead.net/upcoming/web-vr-with-josh-carpenter-and-vladimir-vukicevic

• JSARToolkit & WebRTC  article - http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/webgl/jsartoolkit_webrtc/

• janusvr -http://www.janusvr.com/

• Vive - http://www.htcvr.com/

• Rift Sketch - https://github.com/brianpeiris/RiftSketch/

• WebVR Boilerplate - https://github.com/borismus/webvr-boilerplate

• WebVR polyfill - https://github.com/borismus/webvr-polyfill

• OpenVR - https://github.com/ValveSoftware/openvr

• WebVR Builds for Tango - https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0BzudLt22BqGRbW9WTHMtOWMzNjQ&usp=sharing#list

• MS Edge User Voice - Vote for WebVR - https://windows.uservoice.com/forums/285214-microsoft-edge?query=webvr

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Panelists

• Danny Blue (@dee_bloo) - Senior Front End Engineer at Deloitte Digital

• Erik Isaksen (@eisaksen) - Front End Development Lead at Deloitte Digital & Google Developer Expert in Web Technologies

• Justin Ribeiro (@justinribeiro)  - Wearables & HTML5 Google Developer Expert & Partner at Stickman Ventures