Microsoft Is Bringing WebVR To Microsoft Edge On Windows 10 (mspoweruser.com)

An anonymous reader quotes a report from MSPoweruser: Microsoft today announced that the company is bringing support for WebVR to Microsoft Edge on Windows 10. With WebVR, users can experience Virtual Reality content from their web browser on a virtual reality headset such as the Oculus Rift. WebVR support on Microsoft Edge may also be useful for the Windows Holographic Shell on Windows 10, which is expected to arrive sometime later this year. For those unfamiliar, Microsoft will be allowing virtual reality headset owners to use Windows Holographic on their Windows 10 PC -- therefore, Microsoft Edge supporting WebVR can turn out to be very useful. WebVR is already supported in browsers like Google Chrome and Firefox, but it'll be coming to Microsoft Edge in the near-future. At the moment, Microsoft isn't sharing many details about WebVR on Microsoft Edge. While there isn't any official info on when the company plans to release this feature, we suspect it'll be coming with Windows 10 Redstone 2 which is expected to arrive in early 2017.

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Someone is living in a virtual reality

[penguinoid]

if they think I'm downgrading to Windows 10.

Re: Someone is living in a virtual reality

[Anonymous Coward]

Look at me I used "M$" in a sentence.

Is it still fucking 1995?

Re:Someone is living in a virtual reality

[Anonymous Coward]

M$ doesn't even have a VR headset to make this work. The closest they have is that overpriced, low resolution, low FOV, postage stamp-sized viewport piece of shit "Hololens" which isn't even a hologram, despite the dishonest name.

Come now, it is well-established precedent that words no longer have meanings. See the case of Hoverboards vs. Reality.

Re:Someone is living in a virtual reality

[jip_janneke1901]

even when you would, still nobody sane, is using EDGE...

Re:Someone is living in a virtual reality

[Anonymous Coward]

That will not stop them from removing the support from non-VR webpages. Lack of touchscreens did not stop them from revamping their UI for touchscreens only.

I have one question....

[Anonymous Coward]

....is it supported on Microsoft Edge? Will it be coming to Microsoft Edge in the near-future?

So, VRML 2.0?

[TheRealMindChild]

Second try for VRML?

Re:So, VRML 2.0?

[Stormwatch]

Was there even a first try? I remember some buzz, but I don't remember anyone actually using VRML.

Re:So, VRML 2.0?

[antdude]

Maybe it will be better? NOT!

Re:So, VRML 2.0?

[Anonymous Coward]

Was there even a first try? I remember some buzz, but I don't remember anyone actually using VRML.

It did work. I tried it as a kid and vaguely remember using it as a chat room where people could interact in a new way. It was too laggy though so it didn't stick. With enough horsepower though who knows. I am going to wait for an open standard though because fuck you too Microsoft.

Re:So, VRML 2.0?

[vossman77]

Came here to say this. I remember back in 1996 or so, a colleague of mine was trying say that in 5 years VRML will replace HTML. The thought made me throw up, it was so wonky.

I still have not caught on to the modern VR phase either, looks like it would give me neck pains.

Re:So, VRML 2.0?

[rat7307]

I literally threw out a J# for VRML book when moving house a few months ago.

I knew I should have kept hold of it!

Bloat bloat bloat

[grumpy-cowboy]

It's time to "invent" a new Web. A place where big corporations are not welcome.

Also coming to Pocketfox

[Anonymous Coward]

Requires mandatory pocket login and sending your hardware info to Yahoo.

wow

[Anonymous Coward]

Seriously, who cares?

Way to stay ahead of the curve

[Anonymous Coward]

WebVR is already supported in browsers like Google Chrome and Firefox ... we suspect it'll be coming with Windows 10 Redstone 2 which is expected to arrive in early 2017.

Re:VR for niggers

[Anonymous Coward]

You could call it "Grand Theft Auto".

bloat, as such forefox/chrome will jump in too

[sittingnut]

classic case of bloatware.
given their track record, mozilla firefox and google chrome would also 'support' some kind of vr soon(may be they already do? idk thankfully).

why do these people so reluctant to allow users to pick and choose the programs they want to use when they want to use as needed.

Before dumb ass patent office

[Anonymous Coward]

Before any dumbass in the patent office starts handing Microsoft a bunch of VR patents, please at least watch a video and realize VR is old and a VR standard for the web came and went and was hardly used except for a few architecture firms.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFz7-RbGV8s

and the history of the OpenVRML stack:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenVRML

Holographic shell?

[temcat]

I wonder how a holographic shell prompt would look like.

Edge is POS

[Anonymous Coward]

Microsoft is a piece of shit. I've had to switch to that anti-America browser, Google Chrome, but because I downgraded from Vista to Windows 10, even it doesn't run well. QNX anyone?

MS Edge

[Anonymous Coward]

Maybe they should go for a little stability first?

Corporation-free web over what Internet?

[tepples]

Would a corporation-free World Wide Web be carried on the present corporate Internet or over a parallel corporation-free Internet? If the latter, how will the non-corporate backers find the means to buy rights of way to lay wires from cities or to lease radio frequency spectrum from national radio regulators?

Probably the usual Microsoft implementation

[Pop69]

A few years late and slightly incompatible with everyone elses