Posts Tagged: HTML5

Room-Scale WebVR with Cardboard: Definitely Possible

This is something I wanted to see happening for a long time: Put your smartphone in a cardboard-style HMD, and have a VR experience that allows you to turn, kneel and stand, walk around… without being bound by cables. That kind of experience that is now called “room-scale VR”. That means having a VR experience
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WebAR: Combining Cardboard Style VR and the Phone’s Camera

Creating an in-browser augmented reality experience with a smartphone and cardboard – sounds awesome, doesn’t it? Here’s my thoughts along the bumpy road I traveled so far: The Idea A smartphone is capable of delivering VR experiences using a browser, WebGL, and a cardboard. If you add a stream from the back-facing camera to it,
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Fetch API Code Completion and Type Hinting

Are you using the Fetch API yet? If no, then head over to the MDN to find out why you definitely should – and don’t forget to come right back! Ok, now that we’re all using the Fetch API whenever we can (oh, great!), you’ll find that your editor/IDE of choice probably doesn’t know about fetch
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HTML Elements in WebGL: Recursion

– Or: Navigate a Website on a Computer Screen in a Website on a Computer Screen – Jerome Etienne‘s post on HTML Elements in a WebGL surrounding really caught my interest. What I wanted to do was slightly different, though: I wanted a fully accessible website displayed on the screen of a computer 3D model
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IndexedDB Code Completion and Type Hinting

IndexedDB isn’t really a new API, but most (maybe even all) Editors don’t provide code completion for it. This is a little annoying, but there’s a quick fix available: You just need to port the relevant IDL definitions to JavaScript, and tell your IDE to include the resulting .js file as a library. I already
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