Unity Unity WebXR Exporter Update We are happy to release an updated version of our Unity Exporter. It now supports WebXR, the new cross browser API for VR and AR on the web. Unity is a great tool
Getting WebXR to 1.0 As the WebXR standard goes through the final stretch to hit 1.0, we have updated our tools to the final API. WebXR [https://www.w3.org/TR/webxr/] is the new standard
MrEd Lessons from Hacking Glitch When we first started building MrEd [https://blog.mozvr.com/mred-an-experiment-in-mixed-reality-editing/] we imagined it would be done as a traditional web service. A potential user goes to a website, creates an account, then
MrEd MrEd, an Experiment in Mixed Reality Editing We are excited to tell you about our experimental Mixed Reality editor, an experiment we did in the spring to explore online editing in MR stories. What’s that? You haven’t heard
voxels VoxelJS: Chunking Magic A couple of weeks ago I relaunched VoxelJS [https://blog.mozvr.com/voxeljs-next/] with modern ThreeJS and modules support. Today I'm going to talk a little bit about how VoxelJS works internally, specifically
voxels VoxelJS Reboot If you’ve ever played Minecraft then you have used a voxel engine. My 7 year old son is a huge fan of Minecraft and asked me to make a Minecraft for VR.
JingleSmash Jingle Smash: Performance Work This is part 5 [https://blog.mozvr.com/tag/jinglesmash/] of my series on how I built Jingle Smash, a block smashing WebVR game Performance was the final step to making Jingle Smash
ThreeJS Building an In-Game Editor This is part 4 of my series [https://blog.mozvr.com/tag/jinglesmash/] on how I built Jingle Smash, a block smashing WebVR game Jingle Smash [https://vr.josh.earth/webxr-experiments/physics/player.
JingleSmash Jingle Smash: Geometry and Textures Josh generated all graphics for Jingle Smash in code. One of the magical parts about VR development with the web is that iteration is *so* fast.
JingleSmash Jingle Smash: Choosing a Physics Engine This is part 2 of my series [https://blog.mozvr.com/tag/jinglesmash/] on how I built Jingle Smash, a block smashing WebVR game . The key to a physics based game like Jingle
Tools Immersive Media Content Creation Guide Firefox Reality is ready for your panoramic images and videos, in both 2D and 3D. In this guide you will find advice for creating and formatting your content to best display on the
JingleSmash How I made Jingle Smash Building Jingle Smash, a WebVR block smashing game with ThreeJS and CannonJS
WebVR Navigation Study for 3DoF Devices Over the past few months I’ve been building VR demos and writing tutorial blogs. Navigation on a device with only three degrees of freedom (3dof) is tricky, So I decided to do
JingleSmash Jingle Smash, a WebVR Puzzler For the past few years I've made some sort of a game or digital creation to share with the world at Christmas. So of course this year I had to make a VR
ThreeJS Jingle Smash, a WebVR Puzzler For the past few years I’ve made some sort of a game or digital creation to share with the world at Christmas. So of course this year I had to make a
ThreeJS Low Poly style Terrain Generation One of the magical things about using 3D on the web is that we have the rest of the browser APIs available to us. This includes 2D canvas. There are a bunch of
ThreeJS Procedural Geometry: Low Poly Clouds Clouds are similar to the procedural trees that we created last time. The difference is that we can’t just add some cloud shaped objects together. Instead we will merge several spheres and
ThreeJS Procedural Geometry: Trees I’m not a 3d artist. I don’t know how to use Blender or Maya. Instead I create 3D shapes with code. Making geometry from scratch is fairly hard though. You have
ThreeJS Water Ripples with Vertex Shaders WebGL, and therefore ThreeJS supports vertex shaders. And they are awesome. Why? Because they can do things on the GPU that would be costly or impossible on the CPU. Today we will make
Tutorials Customizing Vertex shaders As a graphics programmer when you first hear about shaders they seem magical. Write tiny bits of code in this weird language and they make crazy effects possible at lightning speed. Then you
ThreeJS Cartoon Outline Effect In my 3D games and designs I often go for a cute low-poly cartoonish style. I have long wanted to give my models an actual cartoon-like outline, so that’s what we’re
ThreeJS ThreeJS Intermediate Skill Tutorials ThreeJS [https://threejs.org/] is probably the most used 3D JavaScript library on the web and it’s pretty easy to get started with. However, I found there is little beyond the introductory
ThreeJS Particles Go Wild with Textures Just a few more posts on particles, I promise. This article is part of my ongoing series of medium difficulty ThreeJS tutorials. I’ve long wanted something in between the intro “How to
Tutorials Snowflake Particles: When Points just aren’t enough So far everything we’ve built with particles have been classic GPU particles, meaning we used points and the entire lifetime of a particle is calculated from time and constants available when the
Tutorials Reverse Particles and Fading Away I need to build a sort of vacuum cleaner effect for a little game I’m working on. This means the particles should be distributed randomly in an area then come back to
