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Initial release of IdeaSpace – Open source CMS for the virtual reality web

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36 pointschriscar12 comments

A virtual reality web is something I've been thinking about a lot lately. As in, how do we make the 'Metaverse' a reality. In particular, I've been thinking about how to best handle distributed identity/look. It's definitely an interesting problem, and it's cool to see tools like this already being built.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X3D

http://www.web3d.org/

http://www.x3dom.org/

Note especially the 3d background 'images' on the x3dom site. Try dragging them around with your mouse.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VRML :)

https://aframe.io/

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2016/03/build-the-virtual-reality-...

That's awesome, thank you.

Second Life

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As much as this seems a little glib ( ;-) ) I was just thinking this myself. This is not necessarily new territory... just the user interface technology may have changed a bit.

I think Second Life still kicks around (I might even check), but it seems like the next wave of hype may simply be a case of what is old is new.

Of course, thinking a bit more and being a bit glib myself, perhaps this really means that Second Life may have a thir... er.... second life itself.

What makes this different from any other CMS? Tightly VR integrated? If so, what exactly does that mean?

The example shows some revolving globe. I am not sure what to make out of it.

IdeaSpace uses A-Frame for the definition of WebVR themes. Themes are templates which are used when you create a new VR Space. A VR Space is like a blog post, but can be viewed in Google Cardboard or the Oculus Rift. You can upload images, write text, (more content types will be implemented) for a specific space. So you can change the content of a VR space dynamically.

Here is the demo: https://www.ideaspacevr.org/themes/web-vr-photo-sphere-viewe...

How do you navigate? You've looked at one spherical picture. Then what do you do to look at something else?

In Google Cardboard v2 you have to press the button. In Oculus Rift (or on desktop) you have to press space bar for viewing the navigation menu.

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