Immersive Web Weekly

Issue #073, November 09, 2021, ImmersiveWebWeekly.com

The discourse about the metaverse and Meta continues to froth up my timelines, with web3 (sic) and the immersive web being floated as alternatives to scary walled gardens. As a result, it was good fun to take a break from noodling with an idea and making 1:6 scale Memex to find a few tasty links for you!
Degauss your CRTs, counterbalance your Sword of Damocles, and check that your token ring has a terminator because it's time for another issue of the Immersive Web Weekly!

- Trevor Flowers, maker of Twenty Tiny Memex by 2022

Put PWAs on your Meta Quest

Timmy Kokke (AKA Sorskoot) posted a quick tutorial on sideloading a PWA onto your Meta Quest.

VTuber As A Library

The VTuber community remains one of the most active explorers of digital bodies and this week one of their number released KalidoKit, a face and body tracking library that uses Tensorflow.js to map VRM-based digital bodies in realtime in a browser.

5th ANNY Best of Fest

On 13 November ANNY will open their seven day online event celebrating animation with talks, WebXR experiences, and screenings of shorts. Tickets are $10.