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by jimmySixDOF 1795 days ago
>"the WWW in 3D"

so like WebXR (& WebGPU is moving ahead too)

a good example of whats possible is Vartiste [1], a 3D paint editor tool running in a normal browser on Pancake PC's or in any VR HMD

[1] https://zach-geek.itch.io/vartiste

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I've poked around casually at the WebXR docs, but the main killer feature for me with Croquet et al was portals which would display the goings-on in a linked remote server in real time (you could even embed the full remote environment inside the local environment, sort of like the 3D equivalent of an iFrame).

I guess WebXR's responsibility is the interface between XR and the web, and someone else would need to take on the synchronization task to achieve that.