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Given the state of text tools do you think it would it be viable to pipe a Readability Redux scrape into Aframe?

It should be totally possible. You should be able to fetch the HTML, process it (as Reliability seems to do) and define your own render logic in an A-Frame component.

I couldn't find a reference for Reliability? Is there source?

-I don't know how the FF reader mode is coded-

Edit-- https://github.com/mozilla/readability

You answered your own question. I'm more excited about your approach of alternative ways to render existing Web content over a DOM to texture API. VR is an exciting space to experiment.

I understand that viewpoint but I think the WebVR will be isolating(the normal web doesn't work) and lack uptake until, for example, github.com can be used directly within VR.

I don't believe github themselves will make a native client any time soon, and we shouldn't expect any other websites either.

Thus HTMLTexture seems critical.

I totally agree. We will be pursuing both approaches. HTMLTexture requires consensus and coordination with other browser vendors to come up with a sensible standard and it will take a bit of time. Alternative ways to render page information using WebGL can be explored today.

Yeah, I think so? Like parse the HTML and present it in a nice way in VR? That might be interesting for us to show VR content stand-in for non-VR sites (like Wikipedia) from our browser.

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