Chrome and Firefox add support of virtual reality

Here's good news! If you expect to surf the web using a headset Oculus Rift own headphones or the cardboard house of Google, the Cardboard , know that the developers of Chrome and Firefox have been busy adding components to take support virtual reality in the beta versions of their respective browsers , and could potentially allow websites to provide interactive solutions and other immersive experiences directly on the web.

The news about the Chrome browser from Brandon Jones explains how Web developers can include components of virtual reality in the pages: "in the case of a garment that you can see a virtual mannequin, you can turn around this last, analyze and examine the seams, and so on as if it were on you, " he wrote. He goes on to mention that you can also imagine similar experiences with educational tools in data visualization, mapping, etc ... Online gaming is another area where virtual reality could be implemented.

The new capabilities of virtual reality have been added to Chromium, a version of Chrome that allows you to test experimental features and thus work on various bugs before they do find themselves in the hands of users. This means it will take some time before they it will end up in a stable version of Chrome used by the majority of its users. Jones provides links to the version of Chromium and some demos if you want to try the technology.

Just like Chrome, Firefox tackles. Last month, Mozilla developers have also talked of a better way to implement the technology in the Firefox browser. Vladimir Vukičević Mozilla wrote an article on some of the technical specifications of this new feature. Like Chrome, the development is still in a very early stage, but there are demos that you can test through glasses Oculus Rift.