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It Takes a Village
The W3C VR Workshop team. See us in full 360. After all this time, VR really is the Web’s Next Big Thing. A two-day workshop brought the Web’s best and brightest…
Third Time’s the Charm
How VR and the Web Have Finally Converged — In My Lifetime Twenty five years after the first consumer VR crash, virtual reality is poised to upend human-computer interaction, the Internet has…
A Growing Rift
While the tech press was busy fondling itself over porn as the week’s big VR story, a more significant development went largely unreported. In a recent blog post, Oculus Chief…
Big Data
[text of my emcee rant from tonight’s cocktail social at HTML5DevConf] I’m not actually here right now. You’re seeing an incredibly powerful simulation, crunching petabytes of data at teraflops speeds….
Almost Famo.us
Steve Newcomb is a really sharp guy. In a time when everyone thought search was sewn up, he created Powerset, a natural-language search engine that sold to Microsoft for a…
Alias Ugly
WebGL just got beat hard with the ugly stick. As reported by Ken Russell of the Chrome team, there was a graphics driver issue on “some Mac OS hardware” that…
SketchFABulous
I just met with the 3 founders of Sketchfab, who are in town from Paris for most of the month. This is a great new 3D publishing service that lets…
Steam Engine Time
It’s been happening slowly till now, but in 2012 I think we’ll see an acceleration of new game engines being developed for WebGL. Like the old saying goes, it’s Steam…
WebGL Everywhere!
We just hit another watershed at the most recent WebGL Meetup during GDC 2012. WebGL was running – shipped – on not one but two tablet devices! There was a…
Eye Robot
It’s official: I have just seen the coolest thing in my life, ever. It’s called My Robot Nation. They showcased at our last WebGL Meetup in San Francisco and brought…