W 3 C Web VR Workshop {Events}

W3CWebVRWorkshop October 2016 in San Jose

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Attended activities

• Opening in plenary
• First round table session
• Link traversal breakout session

Opening in plenary

• Sean White's intro
  • long now
  • mention of Aframe, A-painter, Argon
  • what's webVR comparative advantage
  • webVR as MR kickstarting platform
• webVR intro
  • browsers "race" view to the spec implementation
  • more changes before more stability (hence point of pinning)
  • webVR as web, a mess of tools, platforms, content, etc
  • Daydream first... trial origin... after January
  • full Chrome VR browser after 1st half 2017, not desktop first
• overall feels like it's mobile first
  • great for democratization, tricky once you have tried "proper" VR with 6DoF controllers and can't go back
• Facebook Carmel and Samsung "VR-first browser" both based on Chromium
  • Samsung "VR-first browser", allows for traversal in VR?
  • looks

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First round table session

• morning
  • demo of link traversal
  • input polyfill
  • accessibility
• afternoon
  • threejs telemetry demo
  • glTF
  • declarative frameworks

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Link traversal breakout session

• cf my Google Docs

Overall remarks and conclusions

• difficulty of going all through the stack, from low level to UX, security to file format, etc
• tricky to develop for content supposedly instantaneously available on ALL machine and yet, always having to find the lowest common denominator
• headache of responsive x adaptive x accessible intractable combinations

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Other reviews or coverage

• schedule https://www.w3.org/2016/06/vr-workshop/schedule.html
• slack https://w3c-vr.slack.com/messages/general/
• live notes https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aI6DSohwWIYGAMpAyxIQy2JWK_hhSVbMw2Vcf-RigNU/

To do

1. improve Template
2. add map data (:ola-point lat= lon= text='':)