Re: AR Web

On Sat, Aug 18, 2018 at 1:57 PM John D. Gwinner <john@gwinner.org> wrote:

> >>Is there a group that is currently working on extending regular web
> pages with 3D content?<<
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> I had an idea a while ago about extending Wordpress pages into 3D objects;
> sort of "spreading" the page around in 3D space, but that's about all I've
> done so far. It would suddenly inject a lot of default content into the
> world. Sort of a "Minority Report" API (how I explain it to Hollywood
> types).
>

This is like the sample on page 22-25 from Josh's excellent presentation
<https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ORdKs1wNe7QysRYSBtmW8LnMTFRu69gEwyOSrjIaZyA/edit#slide=id.g186a1bfda4_0_158>
.
I suspect that such feature would be more likely be done with CSS.


> I had a (traditional) publisher that wanted me to cover WordPress
> alongside A-Frame and React in my second book (I wrote the book "Getting
> Started with React VR[now 360]", but the acquisition editor insisted on
> WordPress being covered in the second VR book "because it was another one
> of the larger web API's."
>
>
> It did get me to thinking ... there could be something to that.
>
>
> == John ==
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> *From:* Rik Cabanier <rcabanier@magicleap.com>
> *Sent:* Friday, August 17, 2018 3:23 PM
> *To:* public-immersive-web@w3.org
> *Subject:* AR Web
>
> All,
>
> last week at Magic Leap we released our browser Helio.
> You can find an overview here: https://www.magicleap.com/experiences/helio
>
> As part of its feature set, we created a set of extensions that allows
> authors to create and manipulate 3D objects such as animated models and
> textures. It also allows extraction so content can be pulled out of the
> browser and placed in the user's environment.
> To make development easy, we created a library called "Prismatic" that
> provides a simple declarative syntax.
>
> We'd like to iterate on our current approach with others vendors and work
> towards an open standard that works on 2D, AR and VR devices.
> I looked at the current community and working groups but couldn't find one
> that covers our current use case.
>
> My questions are:
> - Is there a group that is currently working on extending regular web
> pages with 3D content?
> - If not, is anyone interested in working with us on this?
>
> Please let me know if you want more details on our current implementation.
> I'm happy to explain.
>
> Thanks,
>   Rik
>