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I am not sure showing 2D videos in WebVR is actually useful or better than a standard Google Hangout. I love having a web browser open while in a video call so
by bhouston 10y ago
I am not sure showing 2D videos in WebVR is actually useful or better than a standard Google Hangout. I love having a web browser open while in a video call so I can look up references, share content and other things.
Thus this feels like it is trendy (wohoo VR!), but not actually useful.
- Arathorn 10y agothe point here is that if you view 2D video in a 3D environment with a plain old web browser on a smartphone or tablet etc, it can feel way more immersive when you hook up the accelerometers so you can look around the scene and tilt the device to look from person to person and zoom to whoever's talking etc. Obviously it makes no sense if they have goggles on, but in practice we've found it a huge win over boring 2D VC. (disclaimer, i worked on this :)
- reilly3000 10y agoNot everybody has a high res IR camera and realtime ray tracking pipeline to share a live 3D model of the self over the network. Video will have to do for now...