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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…
The VR Headset Nobody is Building
Let’s just put this out there right now: the future of VR is mobile. Morpheus, Vive and Rift will make a big splash in the living room, but for sheer…
The Domino Effect
Finally, you have broader considerations that might follow what you would call the “falling domino” principle. You have a row of dominoes set up, you knock over the first one,…
The Tipping Point
2014 is the year WebGL tips. Do we need more proof than: Microsoft is on board, with WebGL in both desktop and mobile Internet Explorer. Amazon built WebGL into the…
From the Front Lines, February 2013
WebGL continues to gain in popularity. New fun showcases are coming out all the time, and we are starting to see experimentation from big media names like Disney with its…
Graphics Considered Harmful
OK now I’m getting pissed off. This security crap just won’t go away. Gregg Tavares, Chrome developer, discovered that Silverlight has the same security vulnerability as WebGL. Benoit Jacob, WebGL…
Shades of Chrome
A new blog posting by Microsoft Security Research and Defense, with the combative title “WebGL Considered Harmful,” has reignited the WebGL security debate. Recent moves by the Khronos Group and…