a-frame

another day another fascinating javascript library. as much as it pains me to say it, there’s definitely a pattern here.

virtual reality has been five years away from mainstream adoption for 25 years. previously the problem has been the lack of depth in the market place, hardware that can’t refresh fast enough to prevent nausea, and ultimately the curse of tightly linked hardware and software. that curse being that no one is motived to develop software that will only run on a single device. there were historic attempts to solve this problem, including VRML (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VRML)