WebVR Experiments

Although pretty cool - I am not convinced that the browser is the right medium for this but I am happy to be proven wrong!<p>While the web is an amazing platform and I do wish it grows beyond what any app store and I think that we need to fundamentally rethink some parts of it to make it better and allow more streamlined clients to operate on top of it.<p>Luckily WebVR is just a client API which should not be hard to mirror in streamlined clients but I do not see yet the adoption of such approach and I think that will be awesome in terms of performance and in order to make it more portable&#x2F;emendable into all kinds of devices.<p>That being said, having a VR experience provided on a web site like Amazon, Google, Facebook or Youtube could be interesting but I am not sure if the adoption will be wide and I do not think this is due to the technology itself but the fact that VR obstructs your entire view - it is immersive for sure - but you need to be comfortable to use it where you are sitting and most people are out and about and not exactly in their safe surroundings of their home.<p>This is why AR in my opinion will have a much wider adoption.

This has the potential to have two, maybe even three times as many users as VRML.<p>Seriously though, has everybody forgotten VRML? It&#x27;s weird to see the last VR hype cycle repeating itself in such detail.

Viewing this on a beefy desktop, running Linux-Chrome, I&#x27;m seeing ~18 FPS, with very frequent freezes and frame skips. (Especially on the ping-pong demo.)<p>I don&#x27;t have my cardboard on hand, but this sounds headache-inducing in VR.

Wow, using Chrome on Win10, I tried to select the text &quot;Daydream ready phones&quot; to search for it.<p>Unable to select text after bringing up the right-click context menu.<p>This counteracts how I browse the internet for more information on a topic I&#x27;ve just read about. Try it, try to select some text in the article then right-click it and see it happen.

Slightly OT: Peak and decline of VR related search queries on Google Trends:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;trends.google.com&#x2F;trends&#x2F;explore?q=vr,psvr,oculus,htc%20vive,gear%20vr" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;trends.google.com&#x2F;trends&#x2F;explore?q=vr,psvr,oculus,ht...</a>

Awesome. I remember last year going through all of the chrome experiments [1] on my smart mirror and being absolutely stunned. Regardless on your views of VR, platform, form factor, etc.. these are just cool. Does anyone know what controllers are used with android phones (for the ping pong game)?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.chromeexperiments.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.chromeexperiments.com&#x2F;</a>

Cool. Now we wait until someone builds this one: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;memory-alpha.wikia.com&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;The_Game_(episode)" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;memory-alpha.wikia.com&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;The_Game_(episode)</a>

I haven&#x27;t tried playing it yet, but Mr Nom Nom looks adorable; one of those creative games that stirs my inner child. Etter studios shared some info about its development [1], and open sourced the code that procedurally generates the characters using threejs [2]<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;etterstudio.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;mrnomnom.php" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;etterstudio.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;mrnomnom.php</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;etterstudio&#x2F;mrnomnom&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;etterstudio&#x2F;mrnomnom&#x2F;</a>

Cool tried a couple out on my Nexus 4. Spot the bot was the one out of four that &quot;fully worked&quot; it was a little laggy. Also I don&#x27;t have friends ha.<p>Anyway the forest one the head tracking wasn&#x27;t working for me. Should report that bug on GitHub<p>One of them headset not found. I think it&#x27;s that NFC tag or &quot;magnet?&quot; on the cardboard cover.<p>Thanks for posting this I heard about webvr in a pod cast and open source code! Want to be Ed from Cowboy Bebop and dive into the web.

Cool, good to see some colorful WebVR stuff coming out of Google Experiments. Hopefully that means WebVR will be making from Chromium to Chrome soon =)

I&#x27;m excited for the day that I can put on VR through my phone or computer and shop Amazon with hand gestures and voice. Or look through all the pictures and videos I have stored and fly through memories.<p>I know we&#x27;re still a far way away, but this is definitely a step in the right direction - great job Google!

That is a funny domain. Why it exists?

I have a vive and what I don&#x27;t understand is why I need to use chromium or nightly firefox to view this content when it is out on official mobile builds. Does anyone know why this hasn&#x27;t made it into official desktop builds yet?

It would be awesome to have a Chrome version with GearVR integration.