On Monday, October 26, 2015 at 9:39:57 PM UTC-4, Ehsan Akhgari wrote:
> First things first, congratulations on getting this close!
>
> What's the status of the specification? I just had a quick skim and it
> seems extremely light on details.
The spec is still a draft, and the API is expected to change significantly
(specifically the fullscreen window integration is going to change). The
intent to ship here is a bit premature; the intent is to pref it on in nightly
& aurora, not ship it all the way to release.
> There is quite a bit of details missing. The security model is
> essentially blank, and the descriptions in section 4 seem to be
> high-level overviews of what the DOM interfaces do, rather that detailed
> descriptions that can be used in order to implement the specification.
Yep.
> Also some things that I was expecting to see in the API seem to be
> missing. For example, what should happen if the VR device is
> disconnected as the application is running? It seems like right now the
> application can't even tell that happened.
Also something that's coming in an upcoming revision of the API.
> Another question: do you know if Chrome is planning to ship this feature
> at some point? Has there been interoperability tests?
They are currently in the same boat as us, shipping it in dev or one-off
builds. We're working with them on the specification, and we're generally
interoperable currently.
- Vlad
> On 2015-10-26 3:19 PM, Kearwood "Kip" Gilbert wrote:
> > As of Oct 29, 2015 I intend to turn WebVR on by default for all
> > platforms. It has been developed behind the dom.vr.enabled preference.
> > A compatible API has been implemented (but not yet shipped) in Chromium
> > and Blink.
> >
> > Bug to turn on by default:
> > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1218482
> >
> > Link to standard: https://mozvr.github.io/webvr-spec/webvr.html
> >
> >
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