Vhite Rabbit WebXR Podcast

We chat with Elia Ducceschi (aka. Pipo) about his latest WebXR game "mr NOT - Enough is Enough", a unique game about the idea of not being enough, and various other topics related to WebXR development with Wonderland Engine. Tune in to learn more about the unique ways Elia approaches game development.

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In this very WebAR focused chat with Stephan Lohß and Kim Gripp of Immblend, we dive into WebAR development platforms, the challenges working with non technical clients and also get a great comparison of various 3-dof VR headsets.
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Dave Hill is the Engineering Manager for Oculus Browser at Meta. With his experience in the Games Industry and working at Microsoft on HoloLens, he shares a lot of very interesting thoughts about the current state of WebXR, where it's going, performance, current problems developers are facing. We also get a great overview of what Meta is working on solving with Oculus Browser.

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Alon Grinshpoon is a founder and the CEO of Echo3D, a 3D-ready cloud platform to manage and deliver 3D, AR and VR content. We chat about XR on the web and how it applies to even the seemingly most unrelated industries, cloud streaming of XR content and finally some tips for entrepreneurs in the WebXR space. We also touch on NFTs and the Metaverse.

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Roland Dubois is the curator of "WebXR News", organizer of the NYC A-Frame Meetup group and part of the W3C immersive web working group. He is further known for hosting the Virtuleap WebXR Hackathon back in 2018 and his latest efforts contribute to accessibility in XR through the XRAccess.org and A11y initiatives in form of in-depth blog posts and talks about XR ethics and accessiblity.

In this episode, we talk about Roland's professional journey in the immersive web and how accessibility matters for the immersive web, by example of projects and concepts he built over time.

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Alban Denoyel is the co-founder and CEO of Sketchfab - the #1 platform to publish and explore 3D content online and in VR.

Prior to Sketchfab, he launched a low cost web agency, and worked for 4 years  in the 2D world of photojournalists. He loves making things (usually  with wood or in 3D). He graduated from ESSEC Business School (Paris, France).

We talk about many topics during the podcast including Sketchfab's story and 3D scanning. Listen in and don't forget to follow Alban on twitter or Sketchfab to keep up on his amazing 3D scans.

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We talk to Andrzej about how he started js13kGames and about his career as HTML5 game developer. We learn about web monetization and how he makes a living as a gamedev, as well as his view on WebVR.

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Jacob Rossi is the product manager of Oculus Browser. After his talk at Oculus Connect, we had many questions about WebXR at Oculus. We talk about Infinite Office, PWAs and the Oculus Browser's involvement with the WebXR Device API spec development, e.g. on WebXR Hand Tracking and WebXR Layers. We also discuss how the New Tab Page tries to help with exposure for great WebXR content and about the future of WebXR.

A great deep dive into WebXR at Oculus as well as current and future efforts at Oculus Browser to evolve the immersive web.

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Brandon Jones is a developer at Google and one of the two people who originally brought WebVR into life. As one of the main WebXR Device API spec editors, developer on Chrome's WebGL implementation and contributor on the webxr-input-profiles, he has some interesting insights to share on web graphics performance, spec contribution process and the history of WebXR.

During our wide-ranging conversation, we touch on WebGPU, Brandon's recent blog post "WebXR Scene Optimization", motivations for the webxr-input-profiles project, how WebGL extensions find adoption and much more.

It was a great honor to speak with one of the founding fathers of VR on the web and we wish you a great time listening to this episode.

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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.

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.

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.

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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.

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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.

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.

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.

We are building a WebXR focused graphics engine. We discuss the reasons behind why we decided to take this risk and why it is important for WebXR.

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.

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.

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. 

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.

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How to get a WebXR experience or game featured on various VR browsers.

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