Firefox Reality Now Available
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Firefox Reality Now Available
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Re: Firefox Reality Now Available
#2Awesome! I have all the parts in the bins, and now I have a reason to build a VR rig!
But uh... I don't see linux on the compatibility lists, and I'm not using my work mac for this, and my gaming windows computers are too old (XP), and with lineageos on my phone without gapps... I'm not buying a bunch of proprietary hardware to play with a new open technology so geez I guess I can't play with it at all. Bummer.
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#3Not seeing it in the Viveport store myself...
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#4Hmm, if only PSVR on PC is properly supported...
Still, this is a nice project!
But I remember some kind of virtual reality webpage a year back or so, or was it just custom made by some 4chan users back then?
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#5Awesome! I have all the parts in the bins, and now I have a reason to build a VR rig! But uh... I don't see linux on the compatibility lists, and I'm not using my work mac for this, and my gaming windows computers are too old (XP), and with lineageos on my phone without gapps... I'm not buying a bunch of proprietary hardware to play with a new open technology so geez I guess I can't play with it at all. Bummer.
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#6Doesn’t look that great in the screenshots to be honest - would be nice if it’s not just a gimmick because “we can” but some new paradigm of more effectively and immersive Ly consume the web... I mean - the kind of distraction free “reader mode” that you do in Safari, imagine if you had that in VR and then a 3D way to navigate between web docs/pages based on the links on the current page and smart topics - a bit like Ted Nelson’s Xanadu[1] project from the 60s or whenever - the real vision behind hypertext!
EDIT: [1]: Bit is history on Xanadu https://www.wired.com/1995/06/xanadu/ - and there’s a video of it somewhere and you can/could even download a real demo of it on floppy disk I seem to recall
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#7FYI, a similar feature has been available for months in Chrome on Android under a flag. I don't remember which ones. Maybe
chrome://flags/#vr-browsing-native-android-ui
and
chrome://flags/#vr-browsing-tab-view
basically once enabled Chrome will show up as an app in the Daydream app launcher in VR
I've only used it on Daydream but it's nice to be able to search in VR, use a virtual keyboard, and also run WebVR pages all without leaving VR.
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#8Does anyone know if there's integration with WebGL?
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#9Does anyone know if there's integration with WebGL?
Yeah there is, if you go to some of the sites on the home page there's an "enter VR" button, where the site does the equivalent of fullscreen for VR (it enters VR mode and it's much like a VR app).
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#10The main problem with web browsing in VR is it's way too low resolution to read text and you can't see your hands so you have to type everything in with that remote character by bloody freaking character.
But I guess, if you want to browse the web in VR you might as well do it in Firefox.