Open timeline of WebVR browsing development

MozVR site

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0I-Ft_0i2k4
• MozVR.com was the worlds first WebVR site.
• https://github.com/MozVR/mozvr-site

HIRO browsing experience

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlZnKW2qVZ8
• Publically demonstrated at GDC 2014
• Populated from live tweets with #WebVR hashtag
• Link traversal (using postMessage) and scene-to-scene navigation transitions
• Showcased variety of VR experiences: 360 video, FPS game, Leap Motion integration
• Explored ideas around what transitions between sites could look like
• https://github.com/MozVR/hiro

EtherWorld

• Social, cross-device/platform/browser Voxel-based WebVR world builder and viewer
• Responsive content creation: create worlds on 2D desktop/laptop or with in-VR world builder
• Responsive consumption: consume via URLs 2D desktop/laptop or with in-VR world builder
• Share experiences with others by sharing a unique URL or room name to join
• Social multi-user (WebRTC) using voice (audio navigator.getUserMedia)
• Persistent worlds (with REST API, with metadata stored in Redis store)
• Navigation (both in-VR navigation and traditional browser navigation) between worlds through link traversal (loading a new room URL) and walking through portal objects within the worlds
• https://github.com/EtherWorld/EtherWorld

Taro

• A local browser using manifests as the data source for site metadata.
• Enables submission of WebVR sites.
• Launcher for webVR bookmarks and history
• https://github.com/cvan/taro

WebVR 360°

• Youtube playlist creator for 360 videos.
• Back/forward navigation for browsing playlist
• https://www.dropbox.com/s/298brayuh24et13/webvr360.mp4?dl=0
• https://cvan.io/webvr-weekly-demos/
• https://github.com/cvan/webvr360

WebVR Holodeck

• Content discovery through tracking of content on Github.
• https://www.dropbox.com/s/x76zjfkyg9a494w/public_webvr.mp4?dl=0
• https://cvan.io/webvr-weekly-demos/
• https://github.com/cvan/public_webvr

Horizon browser

• Explores ideas around using CSS to build VR interfaces. ** https://github.com/MozVR/cssvr-boilerplate ** https://github.com/MozVR/cssvr-experiments
• Backwards compatibility with 2D sites.
• Cursor interactions.
• Detect WebVR content.
• Automatic Enter VR behavior.
• Gecko packaging using Graphene.

WebVR-enabled Servo browser

• WebVR API’s enabled in Servo browser.
• https://blog.mozvr.com/webvr-servo-architecture-and-latency-optimizations/

Habitat

• Service-based browser UI design.