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Re: Firefox Reality Now Available

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Post by gtramont »

dmarcos wrote: post #28
gtramont wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This was meant to be a joke. At the same time, it was meant to foster people's curiosity/education on what our industry has tried before. Sorry if it rubbed you the wrong way, though. Now an absolute honest question… how long do you think it'll be before we come across something like VRML again?

I’m one of the maintainers of A-Frame (aframe.io). VRML in spirit but with some learned lessons applied. Happy to answer any questions.

Thanks! To be honest, mea culpa, I didn't look anything up before asking that question. Glad I did, though. Care to expand on the lessons learned?

Re: Firefox Reality Now Available

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Post by moron4hire »

gtramont wrote: post #25
moron4hire wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Gotta be one of these guys in every one of these threads.

This was meant to be a joke. At the same time, it was meant to foster people's curiosity/education on what our industry has tried before. Sorry if it rubbed you the wrong way, though. Now an absolute honest question… how long do you think it'll be before we come across something like VRML again?

Right, when you make uninformed jokes like this, you trivialize the hard work that others are doing.

This isn't Reddit.

Re: Firefox Reality Now Available

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Post by gtramont »

moron4hire wrote: post #33
gtramont wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This was meant to be a joke. At the same time, it was meant to foster people's curiosity/education on what our industry has tried before. Sorry if it rubbed you the wrong way, though. Now an absolute honest question… how long do you think it'll be before we come across something like VRML again?

Right, when you make uninformed jokes like this, you trivialize the hard work that others are doing. This isn't Reddit.

Good point on trivializing other people's work. I can definitely see how it can be interpreted that way. Just to be clear: that was absolutely not my intention. It was more like a "this reminds me of some good old times, does anyone else share the same nostalgia?" type of comment. So, again, sorry if I rubbed you (or anyone else) the wrong way. And I appreciate you taking the time to expand on what I thought was a simple comment.

Re: Firefox Reality Now Available

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Post by sebringj »

This reminds me of animating paperback book pages as a transition to directly linking web pages. The paradigm is leaking over to the new one where the new one doesn't have a good way to do it yet. Instead, I would have a hall with portals you could zoom up to as you wave your hand out in front of you, kind of like the iWatch but not sure the puke factor.

Re: Firefox Reality Now Available

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Post by ehsankia »

mrguyorama wrote: post #26
nobody271 wrote: post #10

The 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.

Steam's VR home or whatever they call it made great use of the touchpad by treating them as two fingers on a virtual keyboard. It was effortless to learn and rather quick.

Too bad Steam VR's desktop is awful. I have 3 monitors side by side, and Steam shows your desktop at a constant width, which means my display is super super tiny. Can't even zoom in, and to left click, you have to keep the controller super constant or it registers as a drag.
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