WebVR Articles
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Prototyping a subcontinent scale sculpture in A-Frame
Back in 2016, I submitted a concept in response to the British Council call for entries to their UK-India 2017 Digital Open Call. Titled “A piece of Art as big as India”, the idea was to create an augmented reality sculpture that the people of India could not only view via mobile devices but sculpt […]
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W3C Workshop on Web and Virtual Reality: A Look Ahead
The W3C Workshop on Web & Virtual Reality was a massive success. In an unprecedented showing, all the major browser vendors and some of the biggest names in technology rallied around a single vision to help reshape how we will work and interact with the web of the future through VR.
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Basics of building 3D games on the Web
You might think that 3D games are harder to develop than 2D because of the extra dimension you have to take into account, but it’s easier than you think. We’ve recently updated the Games section on MDN with a collection of tutorials covering 3D development, with a focus on frameworks that offer shortcuts for developers […]
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Exporting An Indie Unity Game to WebVR
WebVR holds the key to the future of VR content access – instant gratification without any downloads or installs. Or, at least we think so! We’re building a multi-platform digital game subscription service called Jump that delivers native web games to desktop, mobile, console, and VR devices, and we’ve bet our entire business on native web […]
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A-Frame 0.2.0 – The Extensible VR Web
A-Frame is a framework that makes it easy to build virtual reality (VR) content for the Web. It provides: The ability to build 3D scenes with declarative HTML. Responsive WebVR scenes that work out of the box on multiple platforms. An entity-component-system pattern which promotes composability and extensibility. After three fun and busy months of […]
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Building Cardboard Dungeon With A-Frame
Cardboard Dungeon is a web-based dungeon-crawling experience designed for use with Google Cardboard and written using Mozilla’s virtual reality framework, A-Frame. In this case study, I’ll discuss the key challenges I faced during the development of Cardboard Dungeon, my experiences with A-Frame, and some of the lessons I learned whilst approaching virtual reality for the […]
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Build the Virtual Reality Web with A-Frame
The WebVR team at Mozilla (MozVR) set out over a year ago asking, “what would virtual reality (VR) on the Web look like?” Today we click on links to jump from page to page, one day we will walk through portals to jump from world to world. Unfortunately, there are only a handful of WebGL […]
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Introducing the WebVR 1.0 API Proposal
2016 is shaping up to be a banner year for Virtual Reality. Many consumer VR products will finally be available and many top software companies are ramping up to support these new devices. The new medium has also driven demand for web-enabled support from browser vendors. Growth in WebVR has centered on incredible viewing experiences […]
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Stereoscopic Rendering in WebVR
At Mozilla, a small recon team has been toying with the idea of blending the best features of the web such as interconnectedness, permissionless content creation, and safe execution of remote code with the immersive interaction model of Virtual Reality. By starting out with support for Oculus’s DK2 headset, we’ve enabled those interested to begin […]
