- From: John Tamplin <jat@google.com>
- Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 18:22:03 -0400
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 6:09 PM, Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1 at gmail.com>wrote: > On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 2:04 AM, Eoin Kilfeather <ekilfeather at dmc.dit.ie> > wrote: > > I was wondering if any though had been given to a consistant way of > > dealing with stereoscopic displays. A use case has come up in a > > project I am working on which calls for the use of stereoscopic UIs > > but I can find no metion of the term in either the specs or the > > mailing list archive. My though was that perhaps it could be achieved > > by having a browsing context "_left_display" or "_right_display" > > allowing the user agent would render the left/right eye views to the > > correct display in a technology agnostic way. Apologies if this has > > already been covered. > > I do not think such a need has been taken to the Web yet. > > I am wondering: Would that require a Web page to be defined as > actually two basically complete Web pages, separately coded, and then > marked as targeted at the left eye and the right eye? That would be a > very special use case on the Web and hardly render on every Desktop > other than maybe as two Web pages one behind the other. > > If you need something like this, why don't you implement a demo with > two actually separate Web pages and a main page that somehow connects > the two pages to your stereoscopic display, targeting one at each > channel? JavaScript will help. Then you can find out if there is some > technical limit and how it may be done in HTML if there is a need for > extension. > I would think in most cases you would be using something like WebGL to render the 3D scene anyway, and WebGL already has all the information to render to a stereoscopic display. For normal DOM elements, it might be reasonable to have a renderDepth attribute, and have the browser render the left/right versions properly to convey the depth, but that seems more like a gimmick than anything useful. Given the precision required, I don't think separately coding left/right web pages would be useful at all. -- John A. Tamplin Software Engineer (GWT), Google -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/attachments/20100426/ffda9aea/attachment.htm>
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