Vhite Rabbit Podcast

Anselm Hook works on Research and Development at Mozilla, where he focuses on problem solving in many different areas. He initially joined Mozilla to solve problems in AR and VR, but has since pivoted his work's primary focus to monetization on the web. Joshua Marinacci is the senior developer evangelist at Mozilla Mixed Reality. His passion is building great user experiences. He focuses on rapid prototyping to get proof of concepts up and running as fast as possible. He is responsible for developer relations and teaches developers how to work with the tools of the immersive web on the Mozilla Mixed Reality Blog. In this episode, we focus on the future possibilities of monetization on the web, specifically on the immersive web space and how growth happens in the WebXR ecosystem. Links: https://blog.mozvr.com/ - Mozilla Mixed Reality Blog https://blog.mozvr.com/jumpy-balls/ - Jumpy Balls on Mozilla Mixed Reality Blog https://forms.gle/nB7h3aKhbeebDH899 - WebVR Content Submissions for Firefox Reality https://coil.com/ - Coil https://twitter.com/anselm - Anselm Hook on Twitter https://www.linkedin.com/in/anselm/ - Anselm Hook on LinkedIn https://twitter.com/joshmarinacci - Joshua Marinacci on Twitter https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshmarinacci/ - Joshua Marinacci on LinkedIn mr@mozilla.com - E-mail address of the Mozilla Mixed Reality Team

Timmy Kokke is known for live streaming development of his WebXR game "Back To Space" for the WebXR category of the JS13kGames Jam. He is a senior C#/JS/Web developer, technical lead with a lot of knowledge about architecture. He has been building software, primarily for the web, for over 2 decades ranging from large web portals and mobile apps to creating 3D artist impressions and virtual reality. In his free time, you can find Timmy live streaming programming on his Twitch channel and developing all kinds of different projects in WebXR. If you are in the Netherlands on the 14th of April, you can join the WebXR NL meetup. Links: http://js13kgames.com/entries/spacewrecked - Spacewrecked by Sorskoot on JS13kGames https://constructarca.de/game/back-to-space/ - Back to Space by Skorskoot on Construct Arcade https://timmykokke.com/ - Timmy Kokke's Website https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCce5_8Mm8ioo7PKPsTP93zQ - Timmy Kokke's YouTube channel https://twitter.com/sorskoot - Timmy Kokke on Twitter https://www.linkedin.com/in/timmykokke/ - Timmy Kokke on LinkedIn https://www.meetup.com/webxrnl/events/254819059/ - WebXR NL meetup April 14th 2020

Lars Bergstrom is the technical director of the Mixed Reality team at Mozilla. He manages the virtual and augmented reality browser efforts, the Mozilla Hubs team, their mixed reality content creation and discovery teams and the ops work it all relies on. If it touches virtual or augmented reality at Mozilla, somebody in his team is involved. Lars gives insights into his work at Mozilla, specifically on Hello WebXR, Firefox Reality and Mozilla Hubs, and explains the direction they took with the projects. We chat about the future of the immersive web and the big leaps Mozilla is taking in the immersive web space. Furthermore we discuss diffent ways of structuring monetization and about the different lessons learnt from the growth of the web, that we need to watch out for when creating the immersive web. Tune into this very interesting discussion on where the immersive web is going. Links: https://blog.mozvr.com/hello-webxr/ - Hello WebXR on Mozilla Mixed Reality Blog https://blog.mozvr.com/ - Mozilla Mixed Reality Blog https://forms.gle/nB7h3aKhbeebDH899 - WebVR Content Submissions for Firefox Reality https://twitter.com/larsberg_ - Lars Bergstrom on Twitter https://www.linkedin.com/in/lars-a-bergstrom/ - Lars Bergstrom on LinkedIn mr@mozilla.com - E-mail address of the Mozilla Mixed Reality Team

Fabien Bénétou currently works as a WebXR consultant and developer for the European Parliament, where he works on immersive projects for the department of innovation. He also works with UNICEF as a technical advisor, where he mentors and advises innovative startups in developing nations on technical topics. Otherwise, he works as a Freelance WebXR developer. Fabien is also the organizer of many different WebXR and other immersive technology meetups near Brussels and Paris. We talk about many different topics, including Fabien's previous and current projects, his views on the possibilities of immersive technology and much more! Listen to find more about his interesting thoughts on organizing and managing information, especially in VR. As mentioned in the episode, Fabien quite often hosts meetups in Brussels. The next one will be on the 11th of March 2020 from 17:00 to 19:00, more information can be found on : https://www.meetup.com/de-DE/VR-LAB-Brussels/events/268456609/ Links: https://fabien.benetou.fr/ - Fabien's website https://twitter.com/utopiah - Fabien on Twitter fabien@benetou.fr -Fabien's email https://github.com/Utopiah/relax-plus-think-space - Relax Plus Think Space on GitHub

Sven Meyenberg is WebXR developer for SROMLINE and creator of "Towermax Fitness", "Cross the Street" and "Gridlz" and a WebVR learning platform. He details the process for his projects, explains why he went into the Fitness sector with WebXR and what the biggest problems in WebXR fitness are to date. Listen to find out about his very progressive approach to meetings with clients and learn about the vision behind each of his experiences. Links: https://towermax.fitness/ - Towermax Fitness https://lernendurcherleben.ch/ - SROMLINE's WebXR Learning Platform https://sromline.studio/contentroom/ - SROMLINE's WebXR Portfolio in VR https://sromline.studio/ - SROMLINE's Website https://twitter.com/sromline - Sven on Twitter http://crossthestreet.fun/ - "Cross the Street" WebVR game https://gridlz.com/ - "Gridlz" WebVR game

Quick info on our switch to releasing weekly episodes every monday.

In this multi part conversation, we share some of our knowledge on optimization techniques for WebXR applications. Today we talk about resizing textures, post processing effects, object pooling and animation size optimization. Links: - https://discord.gg/ZSA6kCQ Wonderland Engine Discord Server - https://forms.gle/ZX49HXQXJsTWtNTc8 Feedback poll

In this multi part conversation, we share some of our knowledge on optimization techniques for WebXR applications. Today we talk about LODs, Instancing, using phong lighting instead of PBR, baking lights and using normal maps in VR. Links: - https://discord.gg/ZSA6kCQ Wonderland Engine Discord Server - https://forms.gle/ZX49HXQXJsTWtNTc8 Feedback poll

In this multi part conversation, we share some of our knowledge on optimization techniques for WebXR applications. Today we talk about textures, foveated rendering and mip mapping. Links: - https://wiki.delphigl.com/index.php/MipMaps Mip Mapping DGL Wiki - https://discord.gg/ZSA6kCQ Wonderland Engine Discord Server - https://forms.gle/ZX49HXQXJsTWtNTc8 Feedback poll

Vhite Rabbit is developing a WebXR focussed graphics engine. We discuss the reasons behind why we decided to take this risk and why it is important for WebXR. Links: - https://discord.gg/ZSA6kCQ Wonderland Engine Discord Server - https://forms.gle/ZX49HXQXJsTWtNTc8 Feedback poll

WebGPU exposes an API for websites to interact with the GPU to perform rendering or machine learning. Jonathan explains the many advantages of this upcoming standard and how it can benefit your future projects. Links: - https://gpuweb.github.io/gpuweb/ WebGPU spec - https://github.com/VhiteRabbit/emscripten-webxr WebXR library for Emscripten on Github - https://forms.gle/ZX49HXQXJsTWtNTc8 Feedback poll

Mozilla Reality created an introductory experience to celebrate the release of the WebXR spec, called Hello WebXR. We checked out the experience and talk about the technology behind it. Links: - https://mixedreality.mozilla.org/hello-webxr/ Hello WebXR! - https://github.com/mozillareality/hello-webxr Hello WebXR! repository on Github - https://forms.gle/ZX49HXQXJsTWtNTc8 Feedback poll

Speech to Text has been around for a while now, but what about using it in your WebXR application? We talk about two different ways of using voice as an input method and share our insights. As the podcast goes on, we want to make it better! So, we would like to ask our listeners to take a look at our feedback poll down in the links and give us your honest opinion. Links: - https://www.talater.com/annyang/ annyang! - https://github.com/syl22-00/pocketsphinx.js pocketsphinx.js - https://forms.gle/ZX49HXQXJsTWtNTc8 Feedback poll

Visualization of motion controllers has been improved and simplified for developers by the WebXR input profiles. We also reflect on our experiences working with motion controllers in our past projects. Links: - https://github.com/immersive-web/webxr-input-profilesWebXR input profiles repository - https://immersive-web.github.io/webxr-input-profiles/packages/viewer/dist/index.html WebXR input profiles viewer

Elijah Tai is the CEO and co-founder of Wonderleap, a company dedicated to helping WebXR developers monetize their experiences. In this part of our multi-part conversation, we think about where WebXR could be heading, how WenVR and WebAR apps could be more tightly integrated with headset OSs, and finally audio AR. Follow Elijah Tai on twitter (@elijah_tai) or reach out to him per email (elijah@wonderleap.co). Links: https://wonderleap.co/ - Wonderleap Website https://discord.gg/aW97hSh - Wonderleap Discord Server

Elijah Tai is the CEO and co-founder of Wonderleap, a company dedicated to helping WebXR developers monetize their experiences. In this part of our multi-part conversation, Elijah speaks about what he imagines users currently expect from a Browser in VR, we discuss discover-ability of WebXR content, touching on Desktop-to-VR link sharing and finally compare innovation of input in the smartphone space to the BR browsing experience. Follow Elijah Tai on twitter (@elijah_tai) or reach out to him per email (elijah@wonderleap.co). Links: https://wonderleap.co/ - Wonderleap Website https://discord.gg/aW97hSh - Wonderleap Discord Server

Elijah Tai is the CEO and co-founder of Wonderleap, a company dedicated to helping WebXR developers monetize their experiences. In this part of our multi-part conversation, we ask Elijah why he believes WebXR is going to be a thing, discuss what WebXR is missing to get there and touch on content diversity on the immersive web. Follow Elijah Tai on twitter (@elijah_tai) or reach out to him per email (elijah@wonderleap.co). Links: https://wonderleap.co/ - Wonderleap Website https://discord.gg/aW97hSh - Wonderleap Discord Server

Elijah Tai is the CEO and co-founder of Wonderleap, a company dedicated to helping WebXR developers monetize their experiences. In this part of our multi-part conversation, we discuss different forms of advertisement in WebVR and who currently benefits most from advertising on the immersive web. Follow Elijah Tai on twitter (@elijah_tai) or reach out to him per email (elijah@wonderleap.co). Links: https://wonderleap.co/ - Wonderleap Website

Elijah Tai is the CEO and co-founder of Wonderleap, a company dedicated to helping WebXR developers monetize their experiences. In this part of our multi-part conversation, he talks about how he started his work on making WebVR development sustainable.  He talks about his beginnings in tech and how he was inspired by the possibilities on the immersive web.  Follow Elijah Tai on twitter (@elijah_tai) or reach out to him per email (elijah@wonderleap.co). Links: https://wonderleap.co/ - Wonderleap Website

We discuss different Virtual- and Augmented Reality headsets and try to compare which are best for WebXR development.

Which browsers support WebXR and which browsers we each prefer for development. We also touch on some features that are currently being worked on for the WebXR Device API specification. Links: https://caniuse.com - browser support for Web API features

A creative brainstorming session for uses cases of WebXR. Links: - https://sromline.studio/ SROMLINE's website - https://lernendurcherleben.ch/ WebXR learning experience (select "english" top right)

We talk about how scopes of native projects compare to web and discuss what web standards are.

We discuss whether building a WebXR project in Unity 3D or Unreal Engine 4 is possible and compare them to A-Frame inspector and 8thwall's Cloud IDE. Finally we briefly hint at the Wonderland Engine. Links: https://www.wonderlandengine.com/ - Wonderland Engine Website

We discuss some WebAR projects, especially our digital event booth and briefly talk about the state of WebXR on AR headsets.

If you want to meet people in VR and on the Web, Mozilla Hubs is the way to go. We've been to the "M3 Meetup" (we got the meaning of M3 wrong, it's actually: Metaverse Makers Mastermind) and to the Wonderleap WebXR Meetup and discuss our experience in this episode. Links: - https://discord.gg/aW97hSh - Wonderleap Discord (join to attend the Meetup on the 20th of January 2020!)

About the poster we placed in Barista Express together with Wonderleap and other monetization options. Links: https://wonderleap.co/ - Wonderleap Website

We discuss some challenges on our to-date most ambitious WebXR game project "Barista Express".

How to get a WebXR experience or game featured on various VR browsers. Links: https://mixedreality.mozilla.org/ - Mozilla Reality browser, https://oculusweb.fb.com/submit - Oculus Browser WebXR submission form, https://constructarca.de/publish/ - Publish your WebXR game onto Construct Arcade

Florian's journey with Construct Arcade, building games with the A-Frame framework, how developing VR with web technologies compares to native development and the Construct Arcade VR Hub.

A brief overview of WebXR in general and WebAR and WebVR projects that we have worked on in the past.