Embedding web apps in mixed reality

PubDate: May 2018

Teams: Varjo

Writers: Antti Peuhkurinen; Tommi Mikkonen

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Abstract

Increase in processing capabilities, network connectivity, and other technical advances have enabled new ways to consume digital content. These include technologies such as virtual, mixed, and augmented reality, where new display type and multiple new input technologies are emerging. However, these systems are usually designed such that there is only the pre-installed main application, leaving the true application paradigm – analogous to desktop applications or mobile apps where the paradigms are well-established – inside the virtual reality still undefined. In this paper, we propose that web technologies form a potential dominant design that can be used to enrich mixed reality in a non-invasive fashion. More precisely, we go through the current technologies and open our thinking with examples from possible needs for the web application paradigm to work well with the virtual reality.