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HoloJS – A framework for creating UWP applications using JavaScript and WebGL

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Post by pofukuv » Thu, Dec 22, 2016, 12:28 PM UTC

HoloJS – A framework for creating UWP applications using JavaScript and WebGL
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Post by bhouston » Thu, Dec 22, 2016, 2:05 PM UTC

This seems like a lot of work. Couldn't Microsoft just support the WebVR API interface in Edge or some other type of AR extension into Edge? That is all I would want. Then I can just use ThreeJS or Babylon.js with it from a normal website, and then there is no need to ship custom desktop applications with embedded.

I guess I do not want to ship applications if I don't have to.

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Post by jaegerpicker » Thu, Dec 22, 2016, 2:17 PM UTC

bhouston wrote: post #2

This seems like a lot of work. Couldn't Microsoft just support the WebVR API interface in Edge or some other type of AR extension into Edge? That is all I would want. Then I can just use ThreeJS or Babylon.js with it from a normal website, and then there is no need to ship custom desktop applications with embedded. I guess I do not want to ship applications if I don't have to.

This isn't aimed at regular desktop applications it's aimed creating applications for the Hololens, Microsoft's Mixed Reality platform. You could use this to make desktop apps but I'm not sure the point of a holographic desktop app or what the really means.

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Post by MayorOfMonkeys » Thu, Dec 22, 2016, 2:27 PM UTC

Interesting. With a little hackery, it should be fairly easy to get this working with PlayCanvas. I'm not sure why it needs to use a new element type though (canvas3D).

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Post by optimuspaul » Thu, Dec 22, 2016, 2:32 PM UTC

Wish I had known what UWP was before I clicked the link.

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Post by mixedbit » Thu, Dec 22, 2016, 2:36 PM UTC

bhouston wrote: post #2

This seems like a lot of work. Couldn't Microsoft just support the WebVR API interface in Edge or some other type of AR extension into Edge? That is all I would want. Then I can just use ThreeJS or Babylon.js with it from a normal website, and then there is no need to ship custom desktop applications with embedded. I guess I do not want to ship applications if I don't have to.

As far as I know Microsoft plans to support and contributes to WebVR work. Microsoft involvement and requirements were the reason for the most recent (1.1) spec update. This was explained by Brandon Jones here: http://blog.tojicode.com/2016/09/update-on-webvr-spec-chrome...

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Dec 22, 2016, 2:48 PM UTC

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Post by nugator » Thu, Dec 22, 2016, 3:08 PM UTC

UWP = Universal Windows Platform, did not know that.

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Post by contextfree » Thu, Dec 22, 2016, 4:53 PM UTC

How does this relate to the existing Windows support for JS apps via wwahost and the WinRT JS projection? Does that not work on HoloLens for some reason?

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Post by iLoch » Thu, Dec 22, 2016, 5:43 PM UTC

contextfree wrote: post #9

How does this relate to the existing Windows support for JS apps via wwahost and the WinRT JS projection? Does that not work on HoloLens for some reason?

This uses the same engine, however that host doesn't provide any support for 3D. You wouldn't be able to write WebGL in it, for example. This library exposes a WebGL interface to the JS environment.