160k Attendees at Secret Sky 2021
The Active Theory team didn't rest on the success of last year's Secret Sky event but instead kicked up the design and the tech to host people from 163 countries in Secret Sky 2021.
Let's Do the Timewarp For Real
The Facebook team announced that technology to smooth out media playback and other uses of WebXR layers is on by default in version 16.1 of the Oculus Browser.
Samsung Internet Sees the Light(ing Estimation)
Ada Rose Cannon, our co-chair and the web's advocate, announced that the lighting estimation API in WebXR is enabled in the new beta of Samsung Internet.
Vircadia Sockets it To You
The BabylonJS fronted FOSS virtual world platform, Vircadia, continues to make regular progress and in their monthly update mentioned that they've updated their service replication to more effectively use WebRTC as well as inter-node UDP protocols.
If You Plockle in Plockle then you Plockle in Real Life
The 16 levels of this spatial puzzle game will keep you busy for around two hours, or roughly long enough for your pets to wonder whether something is wrong with you and for your email inbox to overflow.